maoist3
5th August 2002, 18:06
I want to comment on the Progressive Labor Party (PLP)
which used to be half of SDS in the 1960s.
The PLP asks why we cannot have a revolution
and proceed to communism directly. Contrary to
many I read here who believe we should wait
for perfectly volunteer conditions to have a socialist
revolution, PLP says that there should be
dictatorship of the proletariat politically but
communism economically.
The problem for PLP is that in the united $tates
today, the 90% in the united $tates is for bombing Libya, attacking Iraq
and killing thousands of Afghans. What PLP is
talking about would degenerate into slavery,
because the consciousness is just not there.
That's what being out of touch with reality and
substituting wishes for reality means on the ultra-left.
On the right, they propose waiting for conditions
that can never come. They criticize Stalin, Mao,
Hoxha etc. for making revolution; even though what
they did is by far better than what others like
the Trotskyists did--which is basically serve
as a figleaf for the status quo. These critics
are similar to PLP but from another angle basically do not understand the motivations of the people in the u$a and may in fact overestimate them.
The reason that revolutions and movements in the
tradition of Stalin succeed is that these movements do
not pretend that the humyn being is already perfect.
Criticism of these revolutions and movements is
usually done in the name of a humyn species that
does not exist and has not done better yet--in other
words in the name of an illusion that might as well
be God if it were named in the open.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/wyl/maoinfl.html
which used to be half of SDS in the 1960s.
The PLP asks why we cannot have a revolution
and proceed to communism directly. Contrary to
many I read here who believe we should wait
for perfectly volunteer conditions to have a socialist
revolution, PLP says that there should be
dictatorship of the proletariat politically but
communism economically.
The problem for PLP is that in the united $tates
today, the 90% in the united $tates is for bombing Libya, attacking Iraq
and killing thousands of Afghans. What PLP is
talking about would degenerate into slavery,
because the consciousness is just not there.
That's what being out of touch with reality and
substituting wishes for reality means on the ultra-left.
On the right, they propose waiting for conditions
that can never come. They criticize Stalin, Mao,
Hoxha etc. for making revolution; even though what
they did is by far better than what others like
the Trotskyists did--which is basically serve
as a figleaf for the status quo. These critics
are similar to PLP but from another angle basically do not understand the motivations of the people in the u$a and may in fact overestimate them.
The reason that revolutions and movements in the
tradition of Stalin succeed is that these movements do
not pretend that the humyn being is already perfect.
Criticism of these revolutions and movements is
usually done in the name of a humyn species that
does not exist and has not done better yet--in other
words in the name of an illusion that might as well
be God if it were named in the open.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/wyl/maoinfl.html