Re: [Marxism] The SWP was Wrong about the Peace and Freedom Party, and Socialist Viewpoint ...

[Bonnie Weinstein <giobon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis,

Wasn't it Mark who said that waiting for the working class to move was like
waiting for Godot? And you don't want me to talk about that?

But, I've said all I can. So I'll shut up now.

--Bonnie Weinstein


On 9/5/07 3:46 PM, "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Bonnie Weinstein wrote:
>> The essence of communism is majority rule.
> 
> It just dawned on me why I hate hearing this sort of thing. Back in
> 1978, when I was in my last few months in the SWP, I used to sit in
> branch meetings and listen to fellow party members get up during
> preconvention discussion or plenum reports and say things like: "The
> working class is the only class with the power to transform society" or
> "Capitalism is a system that will force working people to take action
> against the bosses." Why at the age of 33 was I being forced to attend a
> new members class?
> 
> Bonnie, no matter what Eli Stephens says, I find this kind of abc's of
> socialism to be totally presumptuous. You really should study your posts
> before submitting them to the list to make sure that all this kind of
> obvious stuff is weeded out.
> 
> There are people on this list who have spent decades in the
> revolutionary movement. They really don't need to hear that the essence
> of communism is majority rule or that the workplace is not a democratic
> environment.
> 
> And here is the all-important reason.
> 
> By stating the obvious, you are conveying the impression that you know
> something that we don't--or worse that we understand it and willfully
> act otherwise. The clear implication is that you are doing missionary
> work among lost souls, a most obnoxious stance to say the least.


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