Why socialism is not necessary

[miychi <miyachi9@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002.05.25 00:30 AM, "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (On the Internet and at left-academic conferences, there is endless
> discussion of the feasibility or non-feasibility of socialism based on
> criteria having to do with economic efficiency, the imperative to avoid
> "grand narratives", constraints imposed by "globalization" or "Empire",
> etc. When you read the article below, you will be reminded that modern
> socialism became a reality because of the barbarism of capitalist war.
> Nothing has changed.)
>
> The Independent (London), May 24, 2002, Friday
>
> JUST THREE MINUTES FROM NUCLEAR STRIKE, INDIA AND PAKISTAN HOLD COUNCILS OF
> WAR
>
> Peter Popham In Delhi
>
> An Indian villager near Jammu in Kashmir after Pakistani troops shelled the
> region yesterday, destroying his home Aman Sharma/AP
>
> INDIA LIVES in several centuries at once, it has been said. What is true of
> peace will also be true if India and Pakistan go to war.
>
> Yesterday, as Indian and Pakistani troops once again exchanged heavy
> artillery fire across Kashmir's ceasefire line, the Indian Prime Minister,
> Atal Behari Vajpayee, held a war council in the Kashmiri capital, Srinagar,
> chairing a meeting of the Unified Command to review the preparations for
> war and the security situation along the border.
>
> In Rawalpindi, Pakistan's corps commanders met to discuss operational
> strategy, and later announced that Pakistani troops were to be withdrawn
> from UN peace -keeping duties in Sierra Leone "in the wake of a grave
> Indian threat". The world quakes at what will happen if the Pakistani
> leader, General Pervez Musharraf, or Mr Vajpayee press the nuclear button.
> Estimates of India's and Pakistan's nuclear strengths vary wildly, but at
> the low end of the scale Pakistan is estimated to have at least 40 nuclear
> bombs compared with India's 60 - quite sufficient for the task.
>
> Both nations also have the missiles needed to deliver them, so that in
> theory all Pakistan's cities and many of India's are within range. A
> missile from Rawalpindi could deliver its nuclear payload to Delhi within
> three minutes, and vice versa.
>
> But India and Pakistan are also braced to fight a very different kind of
> war - a war such as Europe has not seen for more than 80 years.
>
> Three quarters of a million Indian troops are strung out along India's 2000
> -mile border with Pakistan, from the torrid salt marshes of Gujarat to the
> frozen peaks of Siachen Glacier in the High Himalayas. They are confronted
> by a quarter of a million Pakistanis.
>
> Both armies derive from the old Indian army of the British Raj, a unified
> force until independence and partition in 1947. Both claim that they
> enshrine the best military qualities instilled by the British during more
> than two centuries of almost continuous warfare on the subcontinent:
> immense stamina, fierce regimental loyalty, unquestioning obedience.
>
> And the manpower of both is still drawn from the same populations that
> filled the ranks of the Indian Army, what the British termed the "martial
> races": Baluchis, Punjabis, Rajputs and Dogras. Many of the troops
> confronting each other come from the same stock as each other, speak the
> same language and share the same culture, leaving aside the matter of
> religion. That is one of the bitter ironies of India's and Pakistan's
> endless wars.
>
> Both armies are modernising fast: with annual budgets of pounds 9.5bn
> (India) and pounds 2.2bn (Pakistan), which mock their claims to be
> considered poor countries, their compulsive rivalry is buying them new
> combat aircraft, new airborne warning and control systems and missiles, new
> tanks, new artillery.
>
> India has committed to buying pounds 6.8bn of weapons and other hardware
> from its old patron Russia over the next 10 years. Pakistan is
> collaborating with its staunch ally China on a new combat jet. Until 11
> French engineers were killed by a suicide bomber in Karachi two weeks ago,
> France was building Pakistan three new diesel submarines. India also plans
> to deploy new aircraft carriers and submarines among other warships, both
> Russian and home-made. In one war scenario, India chokes Pakistan to death
> by blockading Karachi's port - a tactic threatened by India as a way to end
> the Kargil mountain war three years ago.
>
> Yet whatever the new toys, the preparations for war in Gujarat, Rajasthan,
> Punjab and Kashmir have a relentlessly period look: a turn of the century
> North -West Frontier skirmish remade with a cast of hundreds of thousands;
> Flanders Field, complete with trenches, barbed wire, no man's land and
> mines, translated to some of the hottest places in the world.
>
> Conditions in Rajasthan's desert this month are so extreme that military
> sources said war could not be fought until the temperature had fallen
> somewhat - say around September or October.
>
> Political considerations are forcing them to confront the possibility that
> they will be obliged to fight in the next few weeks, with the temperature
> at 50C (122F) every day, and nearly 70C inside the tanks. There is no water
> out in this desert: it is brought in by train. The troops have been in
> these positions close to the border for nearly six months now. Sandstorms
> make breathing impossible and over to the west in the salt marsh of the
> Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat, the staggering heat, combined with 80 per cent
> humidity and storms of sand and salt, is massively debilitating.
>
> Up in the Jammu region in the south of Jammu and Kashmir state, a blood-
> soaked history is all around. "Invading armies have poured through here for
> centuries," the Sikh commander explained when I visited his camp,
> indicating the flat land at the base of the first Himalayan foothills that
> he overlooked. From the pill-boxes on the front line, the enemy's front
> line is plainly visible a quarter of a mile away. Even in times of relative
> calm, exchanges of machine-gun fire are a daily occurrence. Today the war
> is already going on along this front, with mortar batteries, rocket and
> heavy artillery trading fire every day, targeting enemy civilians and
> driving them out of their villages.
>
> The last time India and Pakistan came close to all-out war was in the
> summer of 1999, when India threw hundreds of thousands of jawans, troops,
> into repelling a Pakistani intrusion in the mountains of Kargil sector of
> Kashmir state - masterminded by one Pervez Musharraf, who was then chief of
> the army. About 1,000 soldiers died in the six-week conflict, which
> involved displays of courage and stamina as Indian soldiers scaled 15,000ft
> peaks to launch suicidal assaults on heavily fortified Pakistani
> mountain-top positions, fighting hand-to-hand to the death. The conflict
> was defused only when Bill Clinton browbeat the Pakistani prime minister,
> Nawaz Sharif, to order a withdrawal.
>
> If India launches the new war by thrusting its forces into Pakistani
> Kashmir, either in pursuit of militants or to smash terrorist training
> camps, it can expect to meet resistance at least as fierce as on Kargil's
> mountains. A more ambitious assault with air power risks provoking
> overwhelming retaliation.
>
>
>
> Louis Proyect
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>
Proyect
 Socialism is not " necessary".
Contradiction in capitalist society result in resistance of workers and
forces workers to drive to destroy usual social relationship and to lead to
build new social system. Below is from capital
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his expropriation is accomplished by the action of the immanent laws of
capitalistic production itself, by the centralization of capital. One
capitalist always kills many. Hand in hand with this centralization, or this
expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever-extending
scale, the co-operative form of the labor-process, the conscious technical
application of science, the methodical cultivation of the soil, the
transformation of the instruments of labor into instruments of labor only
usable in common, the economizing of all means of production by their use as
means of production of combined, socialized labor, the entanglement of all
peoples in the net of the world-market, and with this, the international
character of the capitalistic regime. Along with the constantly diminishing
number of the magnates of capital, who usurp and monopolize all advantages
of this process of transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression,
slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of
the working-class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined,
united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist
production itself. The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of
production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it.
Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last
reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist
integument. Thus integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist
private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.