Re: [Marxism] Two takes on "The Take"

["andypollack@xxxxxxxx" <andypollack@xxxxxxxx>]

I hope the film gets wide circulation -- any exposure to the notion that it's 
OK to occupy a factory is certainly to be welcomed (geez, remember when we used 
to do that in the US?). But predictably the Znet review is full of the sort of 
anarchist nonsense that has helped inhibit such actions from spreading and 
becoming a component part of a broader, more radical movement:

"Although misunderstood at the time by many as a pre-revolutionary
condition, the process, out of people?s necessity to cope with an
extreme situation, created a veritable laboratory of social
experimentation, sparking a plethora of movements that the world has much to 
learn from.

"Although many of these experiments were ultimately corrupted by
different factors ? the large scale barter systems were proven to be
ultimately unsustainable,  absent  mechanisms to prevent unscrupulous
participants from taking advantage of its flaws, for example, or the
originally democratically participatory neighborhood assemblies being
co-opted by the different political parties, the process informs us so we can 
learn to do better in the future....

"[The factory occupiers don't act out of] a pre-determined ideology. They are 
uncorrupted by a political agenda, which lends a certain purity to what they   
are trying to do."

P.S. The current Monthly Review has another "Program for a Popular Economic 
Recovery" by Economistas de Izquierda which is worth reviewing (and knowing 
more about the authors):
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0904edi.htm

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