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Re: Slavery, neco-con socialist and haters - 2




Part 2

Here is what thirty years of probing this question and dogmatically clinging
to what Marx wrote and his underlying logic has taught me.

In the realm of theory and the actual political history of the Marxist
movement in our country the face of this question of primitive accumulation of
capital could not be formulated outside the question of the social position of
the
African American people - the children of the plantation slave. In real life
what faced revolutionaries was a petty bourgeois mass and violent white
chauvinism and Great nation chauvinism. Part of the problem is that the social
revolution imposed on the plantation South was understood as a bourgeois
revolution
and/or a failed bourgeois revolution that was not driven to completion. Marx
did not define the Civil War as a bourgeois revolution and to call following
Marx "Stalinist" is absurd and plain stupid.

These incorrect assumptions formed the fundamental position of the Communist
Party USA. I have never invested any energy into the so-called "Trotskyite"
position because it had no consequence on any sector of the movement of the
laboring classes. General theory formulations, forming ones context need to be
explained.

The bourgeois revolution on a world scale and in every region and corner of
the earth is - above all, a revolution in property relations. This revolution
in property relations arises on the basis of revolution in the means of
production and transforms the form and content of the laboring process it finds
in
existence. The spread and development of the bourgeois property relation and new
means of production takes place on the basis of imperial intrusion. No matter
what the forms of the imperialism, what is exported in the last instance are
advanced production relations in the form of products, superior military and
war implements, advanced skills, advanced technique and more advance
historically evolved social relations - property relations. Or the creations of
reserves
of imperialism that accelerate development in the imperial center, which is
stating the same thing twice.

The political forms of the bourgeois property revolution vary in different
countries, as did the forms of laboring producing commodities within the orbit
of the bourgeois property relations. The social revolution imposed on the
plantation South by the nation that arose in the North - on the basis of the
general transition from manufacturing to industry, was not a bourgeois
revolution.
This social revolution was not a classical bourgeois revolution or a
non-classical bourgeois revolution but a revolution in the form of laboring
that caused
the decomposition of the two primary classes of an antiquated form of
bourgeois commodity production.

The Comintern documents of 1928 and 1930 attempted to correct the imperial
distortion and misunderstanding by the American communist who affiliated to the
new Communist International on the basis of the first Imperial World War. I am
not anti-CPUSA but rather oppose the theory base, which I am familiar with
going back to its emergence from the Populist Movement. This is an inappropriate
form for such a disclosure however given the haters and ideologist.

Anyone that reads these documents within the time frame they were written
cannot misunderstand the theory and political fight. The reason for the
discussion in the first place has nothing to do with race or color but a class
of
people whose peculiar situation was ideologically justified on the basis of
color.

The writings of Karl Marx constitute the Bible of the working class and the
primary analytical tool of the communist social revolution. The communist
social revolution arises as the result of qualitative changes in the means of
production - the industrial system, after society or the most advanced imperial
centers have fundamentally effected the mechanization of agriculture and entered
its post industrial phase.

The communist social revolution is not the same as the transition from
capitalism to socialism articulated by the previous generation of Marxist. The
banner of Socialism was fought for by generations of revolutionaries during the
period of transition from agricultural to industrial relations. Today we labor
in
the opening of a new era in human history.

History has its own logic and so did plantation slavery - a value producing
system. The deformity was slave labor and its class counterpart - the slave
oligarchy, but this does not give us a qualitative understanding of what we are
dealing with. Above all plantation slavery produced commodities - exchange
values and was a manual form of labor during the era of transition from
manufacture to industrial production. The manual form of labor - free or slave
is
incompatible with the continuous development of commodity production no matter
what
its property relation.

All forms of manually dominated labor processes - in general, become a fetter
on the development of the commodity form and means of production. "Capitalism
in agriculture" is a concept that confuses people by blurring the law of
value and why the emergence of production for exchange is a qualitatively
different society from production for the use value property of a thing - direct
consumption. The slave form of labor for a value producing society means being
worked to death.

Each advance in the development of the societal industrial process produced a
quantitative expansion in the boundary of the industrial system as it evolved
on the basis of the bourgeois property relations. Tremendous social upheaval
occurred as society pushed - on all sides, to reform the system to accommodate
the industrial advance. Every quantitative expansion of the industrial system
destroys a class or segment/sector of a class.

The slave system of plantation production would have fallen or undergone
sublating with or without the Civil War because it's labor form was incompatible
with the expansion of commodity production. This plantation system of
production was not a form of the primitive accumulation of capital.


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