Re: [A-List] James Petras on Beslan - fire away

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

>>I agree with the Petras article because that is my understanding of the
political and economic factors underlying the beach head of violence . . . that
emerged with the break up of the Soviet State . . . and an aspect of this
organized violence is part of the old Soviet military and intelligence apparatus as
opposed to an abstract Soviet bureaucracy. <<

Comment

Part of the on line exchange is generating controversy and opinion and this
is all right. Within this framework one can still talk about how they arrived
at a particular political stance.

1. Lenin is dead and has been dead for a very long time but there is a
reluctance on the part of the authorities to put him in the ground. Lenin need a
proper burial consistent with the cultural striving of most of the peoples of the
world. Lenin . . . needs to be buried because he is dead.

Everyone apparently need the justification of Lenin . . . who has apparently
achieved the status of Jesus Christ in the Marxists movement.

Political Leninism is also dead . . . although it has outlived Vladimir Lenin
by many decades. Nevertheless . . . Lenin is dead.

That is the good news.

Here is the bad news.

2. Marxism as an approach to society and women can solve no real political
problems human beings face as daily life. The materialist conception of history
is a tool . . . a lens . . . or framework in which to view general societal
processes.

3. It gets worse . . . we are on our own.

Everyone understands there is no precedence for measuring the various
political currents in the former Soviet Union . . . except on the basis of unraveling
the political polarities that we face today. The resistance in Iraq today is
not the meaning of "National Liberation" . . . and the combatants are
operating without a strong subjective communist polarity. American imperial intrusion
into Iraq is not an attempt to establish a neocolonial regime . . . but rather
to shattered the lingering barriers to speculative capital.

The era of financial and industrial capital - the era of Lenin . . . is long
over and in the American Union the Reagan Revolution and then the Presidency
of Bush 1 . . . politically realigned what sector of capital writes the agenda
for bourgeois property. Here is Clinton's role.

4. The collapse of the Soviet State . . . its dismantling by bourgeois
nationalists . . . the over throw of Soviet Power . . . and then the legalizing of
the bourgeois property relations . . . liquidated the previous political
polarity on earth. There is not an economic polarity between industrial socialism
and industrial capitalism and this is not fully understood.

See . . . there is an economic polarity between landed property and bourgeois
property . . . an antagonism based on the form of property and the difference
in the mode of production . . . and hence social revolution . . . resolved
this contradiction.

I am forever indebted to the doors Soviet Power opened for me personally in
America . . . and the Chinese Revolution and the revolution in China . . .
kicked the door off the hinges in America . . . and allowed the social movement in
America to crystallized a core of revolutionaries and communists during the
1960s . . . 1970s and much of the 1980s.

5. The modern bourgeois nationalists are little chauvinists That is why they
are called bourgeois nationalist in the first place. The bourgeois
nationalists in the large imperial states are called chauvinists . . . to distinguish the
power relationship between countries.

6. The new forms of struggle to emerge may take 30 years . . . but they must
of necessity express the new political polarities and changes in the class
composition of earth. These changes are driven on the basis of changes in the
technological regime . . . period. Such is the ABC of Marxism but it is absent in
every political projection of the so-called Marxists.

It sounds trite and dull . . . but Workers of the World Unite . . . nay . . .
"Proletarian of the World Unite" is on the immediate agenda. The oppressed
peoples of yesteryear is the modern proletarian of today on a world scale. I
challenge anyone to call this new poverty stricken mass . . . peasants.

7. The question of democracy in the former Soviet Union . . . reduces itself
to changing the form of political and social compliance "to the law" . . . and
in some quarters this issue is elevated over the question of one receiving
their damn pension . . . or sovereign class rights.

The sooner we bury Lenin the better. This is my third year on line of
advocating the overthrow of Leninism. Leninism been dead since the victory of the
Vietnamese . . . and in the American Union . . . since the 1965 Rebellion that
was Watts . . . and the political transition that was Detroit in 1967.

OK . . . it took a decade or two to figure this out.

Melvin P.