Re: [Marxism] Marxism] Why analyze the economic crisis

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CB: I agree with this. But focussing on the fact that falling profit rates  
are the trigger cause of every crisis doesn't not imply that we need to get rid 
 of capital. It implies we should try to do something about raising the 
profit  rate back up.
 
Comment
 
To whom? 
 
I beg to differ. No to social democracy. 
 
I absolutely agree that the issue of consumption of socially necessary  means 
of life is paramount and have been screaming such for 10 years non-stop,  
only to be told in so many ways, I was an advocate for the lumpen proletariat,  
rather than the most destitute of the proletarian masses; the 30% of the  
workforce that are temporary workers and basically all those making less than  
roughly 25 K a year. Now that the middle classes are being squeezed by capital  
and we have a President who promises the middle class relief, all of a sudden  
consumption theory and "restricted consumption of the masses," is important as  
an explanation. . 

Everyone in America over 25 years old understands on one level of another  
the impact of the technological revolution, why and how it destroys jobs under  
capitalism. Everyone in America fear to one degree or another their job will 
be  wiped out and replace by a more efficient form of work. 
 
Speaking of being put of out of work by the revolution in the productive  
forces does not imply fighting to raise the profits for the capitalist. This is 
 
what I tell people and everyone always without exception agrees. I am in the  
supermarket and say, "
 
"yawl know that commercial where there are no more cashiers and the guy  
looks like he is stealing food and the guard chase him out the store, only to  
give him his receipt because an automatic scanner has scanned everything in his 
 
pocket?" 
 
Everyone in the store line hakes their head in agreement. 
 
"That is where America is heading. That is what is destroying the middle  
class and everyone else." 
 
I pull  out my old Chrysler badge and say, "we had these scanner  badges 
twenty years ago.
 
"It time for another Revolution, the 3rd edition of the American  
Revolution." 
 
That  is how our class and people think things out.   
 
 
No! 
 
The only way to transfer socially necessary means of life to people with  
little or no money is to give these things to those in need, regardless of 
class  
stratification. The reason for the crisis is capitalist property. The 
capitalist  our mortal enemy and destroying our country and wrecking the world. 
8 
years of  Bush and before that Clinton destroying welfare as we know it lowered 
the  economic level that our working class is being pushed to; destroyed the 
social  safety net and now we have to make up for lost ground. I maintain that 
by 2030  no one in this country, most certainly no Marxist will be blind enough 
to deny  that the new technological regime is laying waste to our country and 
devastating  the working class. The uncritical thought of labeling the mass 
of destitute  proletarians lumpen proletarians will have long ago ceased. 
 
The fight for socially necessary means of life is the direct fight for  
economic communism in the here and now. This does not mean standing up in a  
meeting spouting complex theoretical formula no one can understand. Another  
600,000 
people was unemployed and are going to hit the wall fast. The working  class 
has no economic reserves. Why on earth would a communist not tell the  whole 
truth? 

Marx theory cannot be applied as a program. Lenin did not raise on the  
banner of revolution "restricted consumption" or "organic composition of  
capital." 
"Land, Bead and Peace" summed up the moment. It is impossible and was  not 
written for that purpose. A program of action is always generated on the  basis 
of the spontaneous demands of the workers themselves and this  understanding 
is the ABC of a fighting doctrine of combat. What people need in  our country 
is food and shelter, water bills paid. 
 
Trying to convert a theoretical postulate into a program is the road to the  
revision of Marx and total merger with social democracy.
 
Not because of a flaw in a comrade or a lack of revolutionary intention,  but 
because these postulates are only one aspect of the systems totality. This  
has been at the crux of the entire debate; raising one little paragraph of Marx 
 to the level of a system analysis. 
 
Not to directly point out the FROP - as the workers face it in job lose and  
falling wages, it to go over to social democratic politics American brand or 
the  Democratic Party and Obama-ism. Not to directly speak about over 
accumulation of  capital in the daily form of the banking crisis and the 
giveaway of 
billions  into the black hole of debt financing is to betray the spirit of 
Marx. 
 
Our working class is literate. It is us - the communist and Marxists, that  
have to get their act together and learn how to convey concepts in the 
framework  of how people think things out. 
 
 
WL. 
 
 
 
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