Your critique please.

[Popular Front of Judea]

Personally I have been less than enthusiastic about the anti-revisionist/Maoist/New Communist Movement tendency and its descendants. So one would expect that I would find little of interest posted on the website of the 'League of Revolutionaries for a New America' (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=League_of_Revolutionaries_for_a_Ne w_America&printable=yes). It is descended after all from the NCM 'Communist Labor Party'. But I find reading the manifesto linked below to be very intriguing. (It doesn't hurt that I am one of the many that elected to go on disability as the result of their inability to find employment amidst the Great Recession.)

What's your critique of this? Are they on to something -- or simply on something?

Revolution is the Only Answer for New Proletariat | LRNA (http://rallycomrades.lrna.org/2012/05/revolution-is-the-only-answer-for-new-proletariat/)

A shout-out is due to the Leftist Trainspotters e-mail group where I first saw a mention of the LRNA.

[The Idler]

stopped reading after

the historic shift in the global economy from production with human labor to production without human labor. Capitalism, based on the buying and selling of labor power, is coming to an end — destroyed by the labor-replacing robot.
have they been reading too much David Harvey and not enough Marx on labour theory of value?

[Popular Front of Judea]

Accelerating automation is a reality -- even in China. Bourgeois economists are wringing their hands of our "jobless" recovery. I doubt given the groups history that their analysis can be accounted for by not reading enough Marx. (David Harvey is not a Marxist?)

If there is a good primer out there that walks you through the labor theory of value in a era of "lights out" factories I'm interested.


stopped reading after

have they been reading too much David Harvey and not enough Marx on labour theory of value?

[The Idler]

I. I. Rubin is generally considered superior to Harvey's spurious idea of the labor theory of value being altered by automation. Don't really care if an economist is bourgeois or not, just whether they are wrong or not.