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harryhaller@diasp.eu
harry

Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor. It is this truth, which forms a most essential part of Marx’s teaching, that Kautsky the “Marxist” has failed to understand. On this—the fundamental issue—Kautsky offers “delights” for the bourgeoisie instead of a scientific criticism of those conditions which make every bourgeois democracy a democracy for the rich.

Let us first remind the most learned Mr. Kautsky of the theoretical propositions of Marx and Engels which that pedant has so disgracefully “forgotten” (to please the bourgeoisie), and then explain the matter as popularly as possible.

Not only the ancient and feudal, but also

“the modern representative state is an instrument of exploitation of wage-labour by capital” (Engels, in his work on the state).[The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State]

“As, therefore, the state is only a transitional institution which is used in the struggle, in the revolution, to hold down one’s adversaries by force, it is sheer nonsense to talk of a ’free people’s state’; so long as the proletariat still needs the state, it does not need it in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the state as such ceases to exist” (Engels, in his letter to Bebel, March 28, 1875).

“In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy” (Engels, Introduction toThe Civil War in France by Marx).

Universal suffrage is

“the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state”. (Engels, in his work on the state).

Mr. Kautsky very tediously chews over the cud in the first part of this proposition, which is acceptable to the bourgeoisie. But the second part, which we have italicised and which is not acceptable to the bourgeoisie, the renegade Kautsky passes over in silence!)

“The Commune was to be a working, not a parliamentary, body, executive and legislative at the same time. . . . Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to represent and suppress (ver- und zertreten) the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, constituted in Communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for workers, foremen and accountants for his business” (Marx, in his work on the Paris Commune, The Civil War in France).
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Bourgeois And Proletarian Democracy
V. I. Lenin
— html: [marxists.org] or [marx2mao]
— pdf: [foreignlanguages.press]

#tags#marx #engels #lenin #kautsky #renegade #prrk #democracy #class #1918 ">

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sol_o_o_l@diaspora.psyco.fr
sol_o_o_l

The Panic Of the Ruling Class

The #Panic Of the #Ruling #Class #UK #George #Galloway #Gaza #genocide #Keir #Starmer

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"The cause of all of this political panic is of course the genocide in Gaza. It is essential to join the dots here. We live in a situation where the wealth gap in society between the rich and the poor is expanding at its fastest ever rate. Where for the first time in centuries, young adults can expect to have lower life expectations in terms of employment, education, health and housing than their parents. Where the nexus of control by the ultra-wealthy of both the political and media classes is tighter than ever."
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"Briefly, the chance of the kind of democratic triumph of the working people of which George Galloway dreams, became real with the popular uprising that led to Jeremy #Corbyn being placed as #Labour leader. Corbyn’s chances were destroyed by an entirely fake narrative of #anti-semitism. Since the Holocaust, anti-semitism has understandably been the most potent charge that can be levelled against anybody in politics. A deliberate and calculated campaign to apply the term to any criticism of Israel was ultimately successful in destroying Corbyn and his supporters as a short term threat.

So the demonisation of criticism of #Israel was not an incidental ploy of the ruling class. It was the most important tool, by which they managed to kill off the most potent threat to their political hegemony to arise in a major western country for decades."

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The Panic Of the Ruling Class - Craig Murray

I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been on the right side against appalling wars which...

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/whats-the-matter-with-west-virginia-culture-war-or-class-war

What’s the Matter with West Virginia: #Culture War or #Class War?
LES LEOPOLD
Jan 09, 2024

..."If the #Democrats had taken a real interest in the plight of coal country, it would have been relatively easy to work out a New Deal-like plan for redevelopment. The region needs improved physical infrastructure, stronger schools, and better healthcare facilities. The area could truly benefit from an increase in environmental reclamation jobs funded by the federal government. West Virginians care about the rivers, streams, and forests in which they hunt, fish, and hike. The reclamation of the local environment should have created strong connections between the local population and national Democratic environmentalists. But it didn’t happen. Instead, the Democrats wrote off the state. Good riddance.

As the Republicans continue to press cultural issues, as Tom Frank described, they leave the door open for Democratic solutions that could stop mass layoffs and create sustainable jobs from the millions who have been left behind. The Biden Administration’s bipartisan infrastructure program and green-energy Inflation Reduction Act, as currently conceived, won’t put the people of Mingo County back to work. Furthermore, these voters remember that Frank’s list of anti-working-class economic policies—deregulation, cuts in capital gains taxes, monopolization, and runaway inequality—all had the strong backing of the Democratic Party leadership.

It turns out that what’s the matter with Kansas or West Virginia is the wrong question. What’s the matter with the Democrats is what we should be asking.

#ZachShrewsbury in #WestVirginia and #DanOsborne in #Nebraska are answering that question as they run for the U.S. #Senate as unabashed working-class #candidates. (See Steve Early’s excellent reporting.)

Osborne, a former local union president who led a successful strike against the WK Kellogg Company in 2021, actually is leading in the polls against three-term Republican Senator Deb Fischer. For the first time in decades, the voters in these two states are hearing a progressive populist message from senatorial candidates, and it is ringing true.

The Democratic Party should listen carefully to what Shrewsbury says West Virginia needs.

“We need leaders that are cut from the working-class cloth," he says. "We need representation that will go toe to toe with corporate parasites and their bought politicians. We need a leader who will not waver in the face of these powers that keep the boot on our neck.”

What’s the Matter with West Virginia: Culture War or Class War?

It turns out that what’s the matter with Kansas or West Virginia is the wrong question. What’s the matter with the Democrats is what we should be asking.

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
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Chris Hedges on Class Solidarity (we have to build alliances with people with views that we find distasteful)

Economic justice is the key. King was always adamant about that. There would never be racial justice until there was economic justice. And he was killed of course in Memphis supporting the sanitation workers strike.

And and that means if you're going to go down in an amazon plant you're going to have to deal with people who support Trump.
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We're gonna have to build alliances with people around economic justice who may not think like us, may not talk like us, indeed may embrace and espouse some views that we find distasteful.

Any society that rules especially one as anti-democratic as ours understands that you have to keep class divided, you have to create divisions within the society, and if you create those divisions you can maintain power. But if there's a class consciousness, if classes come together against a ruling oligarchic elite then they're in big trouble.

There's a fascinating book, it's written in the 50s it's called the peculiar institution by the historian Kenneth Stamp on slavery. and he gets the manuals that slaveholders had in order to create divisions among the enslaved peoples. So you create people who work in the house, you create drivers where you are foreman in essence, who are you elevating, give them a little better shack, and those divisions become quite effective in maintaining control. And that's what's happened i mean that's what always happens.
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We have to recover that class solidarity, we have to speak in the language of class warfare, that's it, and that means making alliances with people who are suffering economically but who hold political positions that that we find repugnant.
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Once you start working in a united front like that that is a far more effective way to begin to break down the barriers of racism and the stereotypes of racism and everything else.

--- Chris Hedges on act.tv, April 8, 2021 --- https://youtu.be/3zdyWmiagm4?t=1082

#ChrisHedges #class #solidarity

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escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Daniel Ellsberg, and the “Good” and “Bad” Whistleblower

#CraigMurray

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/06/daniel-ellsberg-and-the-good-and-bad-whistleblower/

"My tribute to my friend #DanielEllsberg, which looks at his defense of #Assange and #Snowden and the wholesale twisting of his memory and legacy by the #establishment #media and #political #class."

#danielellsberg #whistleblowers #wikileaks #guardian #journalism #julianassange #edwardsnowden #chelseamanning

Daniel Ellsberg, and the "Good" and "Bad" Whistleblower - Craig Murray

The massive obituaries to Daniel Ellsberg at the weekend in both New York Times and Washington Post were proof of the status he held in the United States. Only Presidents get that size of obituary. His name was not nearly so widely known in the...

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tpq1980@iviv.hu
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The political tool of "racism" is a form of #Marxism. #Political "racism" is a #psychosocial-#linguistic #tool developed in the late 19th century & deployed in the early 20th century as part of the plagiarised #ideological #weapon of Marxism. #Race Marxism has since been incorporated into #social engineering #strategies as a way to form, perpetuate & #control #multiracial societies.

The #Marxist notion of "#racism" attempts to cast a real or #perceived racial or #ethnic majority-group as an "#oppressor" #class & a real or perceived #racial or #ethnic minority-group as an "#oppressed" #class. This classification is then leveraged, like all Marxism, to break down a #society & reconstitute it to the benefit of a tiny group of #Supranational #Nietzschean #Elite #Scions.

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