RE: [Marxism] What other world is possible? (Dialectic of transition)

[João Paulo Monteiro <jpmonteiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Melvin P:

«Abolition of private property and victory to the workers in their
current 
struggle is the program of communists. I would strongly suggest
rereading section 
two of the Communist Manifesto; Proletarians and Communists. 

Why not expand the list of 26 demands to also include "free beer and 
whiskey?" »




Either this is your way of insulting the working class throwing in a
vicious stereotype, or this "demand" reveals a deep personal problem. I
suspect the later, given the non-sensical flow of your subsequent prose.

So, in your opinion programs are crap. Let's just shout "abolition of
private property" and wait for the spontaneous working of social
dialectics.

Thanks for your contribution.

Don't bother replying. I will have no more time to waste on silly brats
like you. 





Melvin P:
«Karl Marx describes the transition pretty well in his Critique of the
Gotha 
Program. »



Marx does no such thing.
All Marx cared about in the 'Critique' (which was a strictly private
paper anyway) was to denounce the theoretical surrender of the
eisenachians to lassaleanism.
En passant, Marx does describe a transitional scenario. But that is
definitely not his theory of the transition to communism, but a rather
loose speculation based on Owen. In fact, it now appears evident that
all that stuff about "from each, to each according to, etc." is closely
related to the experience of the north-american owenist colony of 'New
Harmony'. If one follows the sequence of Marx's exposition (critique of
point I,3 of the Gotha Program) one is left with no doubt that the whole
point he was making quite other: to denounce ideological and juridical
crap like "equitative sharing of product" and so on. 

If Marx wanted to give us a theory of the transition to communism, he
would have done so oppenly.



João Paulo Monteiro





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