ckaihatsu
17th April 2008, 09:39
(Note: I'm posting this to 'Politics' since I made three attempts to post it as a reply to the original article in the 'Articles' section but it didn't show up.)
Especially in this day and age, with the Internet and the proliferation of blogs and atomized Internet news services but with an Internet “market” of millions of working-class people (and not just a few thousand within the emerging Russian working class), it is crucial to have a singular revolutionary news service encompassing news coverage, analysis, and both bulletin and video discussions. According to one “Ben Seattle,” the maintenance of this revolutionary news service would involve the maintenance of an equally singular database of copyright-free articles (in the common domain), and the different tendencies (currently the various sect-circles) could freely modify contributed material for their own distribution. This would be the initial basis for the creation of one mass “United Social Labour” (USL) organization by the working class, of the working class, and for the working class (to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln), and ultimately the revolutionary Marxist mass party itself – since it would force more coordination of information distribution amongst the different tendencies, be they revolutionary, pseudo-revolutionary, or even outright reformist (but in the non-economistic sense).
^^^ So you are in agreement with me after all in terms of the socialist mode of production having no wage slavery whatsoever (hence, labour-time vouchers or cyber equivalents), right?
Anyhow, I have these criteria, combining your first two:
1) Expropriation throughout the economy and sovkhozization (not mere kolkhozization) of agriculture;
2) Planned economy;
3) Workers' control over the means of production;
4) Abolition of wage slavery and establishment of labour-time economics.
Jacob, all,
Given that this RevLeft board serves the function of the revolutionary news service -- albeit English-predominant -- along with being a vehicle for discussion and debate, how can the working class of the countries of the world catch up to the conditions of nationalization (socialization) we're seeing in Venezuela?
Thanks,
Chris
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Especially in this day and age, with the Internet and the proliferation of blogs and atomized Internet news services but with an Internet “market” of millions of working-class people (and not just a few thousand within the emerging Russian working class), it is crucial to have a singular revolutionary news service encompassing news coverage, analysis, and both bulletin and video discussions. According to one “Ben Seattle,” the maintenance of this revolutionary news service would involve the maintenance of an equally singular database of copyright-free articles (in the common domain), and the different tendencies (currently the various sect-circles) could freely modify contributed material for their own distribution. This would be the initial basis for the creation of one mass “United Social Labour” (USL) organization by the working class, of the working class, and for the working class (to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln), and ultimately the revolutionary Marxist mass party itself – since it would force more coordination of information distribution amongst the different tendencies, be they revolutionary, pseudo-revolutionary, or even outright reformist (but in the non-economistic sense).
^^^ So you are in agreement with me after all in terms of the socialist mode of production having no wage slavery whatsoever (hence, labour-time vouchers or cyber equivalents), right?
Anyhow, I have these criteria, combining your first two:
1) Expropriation throughout the economy and sovkhozization (not mere kolkhozization) of agriculture;
2) Planned economy;
3) Workers' control over the means of production;
4) Abolition of wage slavery and establishment of labour-time economics.
Jacob, all,
Given that this RevLeft board serves the function of the revolutionary news service -- albeit English-predominant -- along with being a vehicle for discussion and debate, how can the working class of the countries of the world catch up to the conditions of nationalization (socialization) we're seeing in Venezuela?
Thanks,
Chris
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www.revleft.com/vb/member.php?u=16162
Favorite web sites: chicago.indymedia.org, wsws.org, marxist.com, rwor.org, labourstart.org, fightbacknews.org, laboraction.org, ifamericansknew.org, substancenews.com, socialismandliberation.org, whatreallyhappened.com, plenglish.com, moneyfiles.org/temp.html, informationclearinghouse.info, blackcommentator.com, narconews.com, truthout.org, raven1.net
Photoillustrations, Political Diagrams by Chris Kaihatsu
community.webshots.com/user/ckaihatsu/
3D Design Communications - Let Your Design Do Your Footwork
ckaihatsu.elance.com
MySpace:
myspace.com/ckaihatsu
CouchSurfing:
tinyurl.com/yoh74u