[Marxism] Re: Political revolutions in Germany

[l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

     Am  15.01.04
schrieb  nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nestor Gorojovsky)
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  ueber  Re: [Marxism] Re: Political revolutions in Germany

NG> Please sweep the "tone" aside.

  It's OK, Nestor.


NG> There was no intention to deride anybody. I believe that the German
NG> working class is a privileged _victim_ of -partly- its own mistakes,

  The class "as such" is just exploitable material. The consciousness of  
this social entity crystallizes itself in form of organisations and  
leaderships. That is how millions of people enable themselves to act as  
one body with a common will and direction.

  While I do not want to idealize "the masses", if "the class" makes a  
mistake, it is some leadership formation of that class, embodying the  
consciousness of the class, which made the error, especially taking into  
consideration that this leadership has some autonomy from the class  
whose consciousness it embodies (here comes it again, the unity of  
identity and difference).

  That's why I react sometimes quite piqued when somebody


NG> and -partly- the colonialist, sheepish and selfish reformism of some
NG> of her neighboring equals,  namely those which -across the Rhine and
NG> across the Alps (but particularly those across the Rhine)- had the
NG> weapons in their hands in 1945 but allowed the bourgeoisie to take
NG> over.

Lüko Willms                                     http://www.mlwerke.de
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