Re: [Marxism] Re: Germany: Beginning of a rupture between unions and SPD

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

Johannes Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:22:34 +0200, Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I think that like Johannes you're looking too much at the visible top
> > of  teh initiative and have no sense of what is happening on the ground.
>
> Perhaps we are less carried away by or wish-full thinking than by the
> reality. The public announcements are the first starting point when
> looking at an emerging political movement.
> The main intellectual forces come from the old Stamokap current (Jörg
> Huffschmid, Joachim Bischoff) and argue for a sort of left Keynesianism.
> I agree with you that there is widespread discontent with the SPD
> policy,  but as long as this discontent does not lead to actions at the
> working  place level against social cuts any kind of new party will be
> limited to  the electoral realm, no matter what the radical left proclaims.
>
> > Lüko:
> >
> > >    They dream of a social democratic policy of pacifying the
> > > relations   between the classes when the class war is getting really
> > > hot.
> > Einde
> > But given the strategy of the German ruling class this option is no
> > longer available.
>
> This is why any revival of left Keynesianism is doomed to failure. If
> we  are discussing the Nazi spectre here, nurturing illusions that such
> a  policy mght be possible will be the best way to strenghten the
> Nazis,  because they can at least present themslef as an activist force.
I was at teh berlin Conference on 20 June and teh forces represented
there were similar to those represented at the Frankfurt activists
conference in December that emerged out of teh rank and file protests on
1 Novemebr last year - trade unionists, unemployed activists, attac etc.
these are people who are also involved in building action from below and
not waiting on teh TU bureacracy.

Gotta go to work now.

Einde O'Callaghan


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