Re: [Marxism] DISILLUSIONED WITH MARXMAILers!

[Benjamin Morgan <foreverblaze89@xxxxxxxxx>]

Comrade Ben:
   
  Marxmail is a very interesting group, it represents members from several 
countries, is multi-lingual and provides a space for discussion of relevant 
social issues. James you talk about the American leftist tradition in a manner 
which suggest it's gradual decline or all out collapse. However, I believe that 
America in general has always had the most stagnant leftist tradition. Granted 
we've had great comrades and great victories most of our problems have always 
circled around organization, participation, and of course petty disputes. 
(which were the major cause of splits in Marxist organization) I believe that 
classic Marxist Leninism and exclusive sects acquiescing in it's tradition 
necessarily allowed for the stratification of the left in the U.S. U.S workers 
were placed below their intellectual counterparts which created a petty 
bourgeois class of radical theorist. (for lack of a better term) Almost 
naturally, Marxmail represents some of that stratified class.
 (Intellectuals who wax nostalgic for a scholarly space to vent their 
perspectives on a wide variety of social issues) This is typically not a bad 
idea. I make this argument for several reasons, first off this class exist 
therefore it can be harnessed and shaped like the bourgeois did the working 
class in reverse. Secondly, it represents the presence of radical intellect 
which is necessary in these gloom times of capitalist exploitation. Finally, it 
can be reversed just as this class was stratified it can become reoriented with 
the working class which I believe is necessary now more than ever. A lot of you 
Marxmailers can talk about this divide and criticize this divide, but "the 
point is to change it". When I posed my idea for the creation of a new form of 
organizational structuralism I was met with a combination of staunch and no 
opposition. However, if you check the archives my mission was to ameliorate 
this very divide yet nobody wanted to even so much as criticize my
 proposal except Mark. (which I appreciate) You rant and rave about this divide 
but what does that do? Does it bring us closer to a palpable solution? Does it 
even marginally increase the quality of marxmail? If it doesn't ask yourself, 
what can I do to help? If you don't know read Constituent Imagination by AK 
press and maybe you will get some insight. I have noticed this material 
condition for a long time and have been trying to change it (even within 
Marxmail) but without the solidarity of all my fellow comrades all I and others 
can do is dream of a unified workers left and a Marxmail which promotes active 
class struggle.
   
  Ben    


?Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has 
reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our 
arms.?
   
  ~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara
       
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