Re: more middle class Re: ruling class subjectivity, was: Re: AUT: a rejuvenated communist

["Dan Sparaco" <dansparaco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,
I just wanted to note that in To Die For the People, Huey Newton, in a
lecture at Boston College, makes a host of remarkably precient arguments,
which forsee the situation Hardt and Negri describe in their work: the
impossibility of socialism, the decline of the state-form given the changes
in the nature of capitalism, the need not for a radical 'nationalism' but
for what he calls 'global intercommunalism.'  And this was in 1972 (I
think).

I guess I have two motivations here; first, to say that this is a really
cool essay well worth reading, and second, I think the argument below is a
bit of a non sequitor.  That is, we read lots of people who were obviously
racist, and I don't think this is a problem; i.e., you can support the
notion of the dialectic and simply bracket Hegel's belief in the superiority
of Germans over all others (unless you decide that the notion of the
dialectic itself relies upon, or only works given, a belief in the
superiority of Germans--in which case, the concept fails once that bias is
critiqued).  It seems quite possible to commit to the same analysis of
radical black thinkers in America re: sexism.

dan




> > eldridge cleaver argued that the lumpenproletariat
> > were the most radical element of the proletariat,

>Eldridge Cleaver also argued that raping white women was a >revolutionary
>act.  Cleaver (Eldridge, not Harry) had a lot of ideas, >almost all of
>which
>were formed by a virulant and often not terribly radical Black >Nationalist
>perspective. I am not even sure I accept the idea of a >lumpenproletariat,
>a
>much more dubious notion than 'petty bourgeoisie/middle class'.
>Lumpenproletariat is a 'Marxisante' term (particularly popular among
> >Maoists
>who decided the working class was counterrevolutionary) for >underclass, an
>argument which splits the working class along money and racial lines in
>practice.  I would think someone opposed to a middle class would be
>extremely hostile to a notion like lumpenproletariat.
>
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