peaccenicked
16th December 2003, 16:44
"Deeply antagonistic and immanently warring interests, the working and technological classes are the emblematic historical signs of the beginning, and ending of the twentieth century. The modern century might have begun with the great historical struggles of the working class, sometimes revolutionary (Marxist-Leninism) and sometimes reformist (the welfare state with its trade and business unionism), but it certainly ends with the political victory of the technological class, and with the global retreat of the working class, like a tide running out to the postmodern sea. Lenin in ruins and Capitalism in ruins as the mirrored signs of the disappearing working class, and the triumphant ascendancy of the technological class as the post-historical embodiment of the will to virtuality. Consequently, the collective gloating of the technological class and the diffusion everywhere of virtual reality as the implacable horizon that welcomes us to the twenty-first century."
From http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=49
Although this article is deplorable in terms of the class theory of karl Marx.
It reflects something of the historical moment we are in. The disillusion
of many socialists and their struggles with the modern world.
I think fundamentally what we should accept is that we are living in a period of reaction which has saw a series of imperialist triumphs. We have to be in tune with new methods of control so as we begin to overcome them, to hinder the futher atomisation of the working class and reestablish bonds of unity.
History may do most of the work for us, but while we are here, Let us find out what our own agenda may become, beyond the ''bread and butter issues.''
From http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=49
Although this article is deplorable in terms of the class theory of karl Marx.
It reflects something of the historical moment we are in. The disillusion
of many socialists and their struggles with the modern world.
I think fundamentally what we should accept is that we are living in a period of reaction which has saw a series of imperialist triumphs. We have to be in tune with new methods of control so as we begin to overcome them, to hinder the futher atomisation of the working class and reestablish bonds of unity.
History may do most of the work for us, but while we are here, Let us find out what our own agenda may become, beyond the ''bread and butter issues.''