Workers-Control-Over-Prod
16th March 2012, 17:34
I have been dealing with the historical issue of power recently. Typically we communists tend to centralisation of power and this is what needs to be discussed, i think we suffer from the simplified bourgeois teachings of history that men change the world. When one looks closer at the progressive changes in recent history, one sees that they have come from the bottom, from a want for change from the masses against the ruling class set. A good example is the American Civil Rights movement: Bourgeois thought teaches of the speeches of Martin Luther King etc. and how thousands "came" to "watch" essentially; NOT that there was a collective urge of the masses but no direct democratic way of its implementation in this kind of hierarchical system. This revisionist teaching of history is of course accountable to systematically ignore/suppress the class struggle; but, I argue it is still very much within the minds and consciousness of the Marxist tradition that history is made by the control and/or "leadership" of a "few good men".