[Marxism] Re: Political revolutions in Germany

[Chris Brady <cdbrady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lüko Willms:
"Taking over the production and distribution of the material wealth
should not be so difficult, once the political power is acquired, since
the economy is already so highly socialised that one needs only to put
the few trusts of every branch of industry into one compulsory cartel to

start administering it in the interest of human needs instead of
profit."

I've often thought over the past few years that this may be the case.
The more wealth consolidates and the more business monopolizes and
centralizes, and the more capitalism infiltrates ever corner of the
globe, all the more easy and all the greater the need becomes to flip
it,
flip it good.

Whenever there is a town where workers are immiserated by down-sourcing
of labor, they should be presented with the reasons why, and the
solution = revolution.

When I consider the illiteracy and superstition of the peoples of
Eastern Europe and West Asia in the 1920s, I personally can understand
why the CPSU did not wholy trust the masses.  It's also the reason Marx
thought that the revolution would begin in the industrialized centers of
capital.  The workers there were not only organized but literate and
relatively well-read.

We now live in a capitalist society that might be even less condusive to
the operation of the factors of communication because we have no widely
disseminated workers' press, or socialist parties spreading the word,
making an "appeal to reason."  Media critics from Bagdikian to Schiller
have noted the weakness of the voice of labor in the media, indeed, any
voice that contradicts the "rightful" hegemony of the bourgeois order.
But capitalism has become such an obvious menace, flagrant and
flaunting, wasting and despoiling far and wide, always with the
crocodilian regret, "Please don't take it personally--it's only
business."  To which we should rejoin: "Precisely!"  and to our
humanity: "People! Time for a change!"  We try to get through but it is
like we are prevented by a bullet-proof one-way mirror.  We can see what
is going on, the people in trouble, and we shout the warning but they
cannot hear us, they cannot see, there is a monster devouring them.
They could overpower it if they only knew.  We know what to do.  We have
the weapon: la gente unido jamas sera vencido.

It is like the bomb has grown bigger but we can't find the fuse.


(I'd actually prefer an analogy that wouldn't be such prey of
"anti-terrorists" but that's what I've come up with, so change it if you
like.)


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