Re: AUT: Marxism and councilism

["Tahir Wood" <twood@xxxxxxxxx>]

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the latter day councilists seemed to be saying via this that ALL
politics and ideology  was intrinsically bourgeois.

Tahir: I find this idea actually quite intriguing and would like to understand it better. (see below)

But Whatever, this says in practice really is that the bourgeoisie gets a
CLEAR
totally uncontested field to infuse and impart their already dominant ideas
and methods
into workers and that they get a guarantee that  revolutionaries in the
plants and offices, shops, will NOT contest them on this front.
Not only lt does this seem horrible tactics. But it just mmainly surenders
the battle for consciousness and thought politically to the ruling class
and its already formidible dominance..
It just seems so apocalyptic in its revolutionary scenarios.
Neil

Tahir: I always wonder when I hear talk of 'strategy', 'tactics', 'battle', 'front', etc. whether there is another way to think of class struggle other than through the metaphor 'revolution is war'. Because if you think of it as war, you're not only going to have strategy, tactics, etc., you're also going to have officers and footsoldiers, chains of command, 'respect for authority', etc.




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