Die Neue Zeit
23rd May 2011, 21:29
Elsewhere (http://www.revleft.com/vb/mission-impossible-explaining-t153130/index.html) I wrote of the need for proletarian demographic minorities (like those in much or most of the Third World) to have their class-based independent political organization exist in a National/Pan-National Petit-Bourgeois framework of managed democracy that incorporates urban petit-bourgeois democratism of things like full communal power and also the peasant patrimonialism of military culture under, to paraphrase the German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle, a "social[ly radical] and [politically] revolutionary people's [elected, non-hereditary, de facto] monarchy."
However, this progressive authoritarianism is in relation to other classes. I did not write about historical episodes of vertical power charisma and broader historical authoritarianism within worker-class movements and how they relate to Third situations today or, to be more exact, the extent to which the proletarian demographic minorities are in need of them (certainly the former, uncertain on the latter).
So, to what extent are such needed, from the "future workers dictator" Ferdinand Lassalle himself and immediate successor Johann "Democratic Centralization" Von Schweitzer to the SPD's tragic one-man management schemes for its institutions of alternative culture (http://books.google.ca/books?id=5kkQyWIFCbIC&pg=PA50&dq=spd+discipline+choir&hl=en&ei=QMTaTZWKOs_PiAKWwsiCCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=spd%20discipline%20choir&f=false) (Lidtke) to working-class examples of Soviet disciplinarianism (http://www.revleft.com/vb/class-never-ruled-t154771/index.html) (Party secretaries Lazar Kaganovich, Frol Kozlov, Dmitri Ustinov, Andrei Kirilenko, and Yuri Andropov, Soviet ice hockey authoritarian Viktor Tikhonov (http://www.revleft.com/vb/coachism-alternative-vanguardism-t120638/index.html), etc.) to "King Arthur" Scargill?
However, this progressive authoritarianism is in relation to other classes. I did not write about historical episodes of vertical power charisma and broader historical authoritarianism within worker-class movements and how they relate to Third situations today or, to be more exact, the extent to which the proletarian demographic minorities are in need of them (certainly the former, uncertain on the latter).
So, to what extent are such needed, from the "future workers dictator" Ferdinand Lassalle himself and immediate successor Johann "Democratic Centralization" Von Schweitzer to the SPD's tragic one-man management schemes for its institutions of alternative culture (http://books.google.ca/books?id=5kkQyWIFCbIC&pg=PA50&dq=spd+discipline+choir&hl=en&ei=QMTaTZWKOs_PiAKWwsiCCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=spd%20discipline%20choir&f=false) (Lidtke) to working-class examples of Soviet disciplinarianism (http://www.revleft.com/vb/class-never-ruled-t154771/index.html) (Party secretaries Lazar Kaganovich, Frol Kozlov, Dmitri Ustinov, Andrei Kirilenko, and Yuri Andropov, Soviet ice hockey authoritarian Viktor Tikhonov (http://www.revleft.com/vb/coachism-alternative-vanguardism-t120638/index.html), etc.) to "King Arthur" Scargill?