Re: What Type of Class Analysis Do We Need?

[Adam Rose <adam@xxxxxxxx>]

> Louis: I
>
> But I don't agree that the bourgeoisie lacks class consciousness. The
> working-class, leaderless, stumbles from defeat to defeat. In the
> meantime, the ruling class continues to slash and burn. The working-class
> doesn't even have a weekly newspaper to advance their interests, while
> the ruling-class has a myriad of journals and think-tanks that allow them
> to arrive at a consensus.
>
> But hasn't this been true ever since the time of Marx? The workers
> continue to struggle to achieve political instruments consistent with
> their class interests, while the capitalists, numerically tiny, dominate
> through their control of the state and the media.
>

Louis, really. This is only half the truth, isn't it ?

The other side to it is that on the one hand the bourgeoisie, because
of its essential nature, can never fully understand the society it
dominates. Also, the working class is a collective class and is always
rediscovering / reinventing its traditions. Besides, those traditions
may have been defeated but they were never extinguished.

The US ruling class thought it had eliminated Marxism in the 50's.
By the 60's, it was doing its best to eliminate the Black Panther
Party, which described itself as "Marxist Leninist" because
it was terrified of what they represented and the extent of their
support.

Adam.

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK


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