[Xmca-l] Re: Working Class Strikes Back

[Larry Smolucha]

Message from Francine Smolucha:

Dave,

One of the complications has been the third 'tent' that has  emerged  -  the 'welfare' class (on the dole to use the British term). The working class  proletariats are oppressed on two sides -by  the bourgeios and by the 'welfare' class. The 'welfare' class has grown to include a mass of unemployed people who collect entitlements such as welfare, social security, and medicaid. This is why blue collar workers (the original proletariats for Marx) have turned to  billionaire capitalist Donald Trump to
create an economy where they can work and keep more of their earned money. The working class has come to view the 'welfare' class as their major oppressor not the capitalist bourgeois.

Every able bodied man, woman, and  teen-ager were supposed to work in a socialist state according to Marx's axiom "From each according to his ability to each according to his needs."  Also, one's career path was determined by the work that needed to be done not by one's personal aspirations.

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From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Harshad Dave <hhdave15@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:12 AM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [Xmca-l] Views are requested.


Dear All,
This is with reference to the article “The Working Class Strikes Back” by Chris Wright.

(Link: https://www.academia.edu/37306144/The_Working_Class_Strikes_Back)

USSR and China were the two countries that passed through the revolution and socialist rule prevailed there. Both the countries faced hard time initially, achieved progress also and ultimately they had to bring some compromise, somewhere in between capitalism and Socialism perhaps. I think there must be impartial study and review in this matter i. e. where the things went wrong. I have tried at my level and I put my views as follow,
Generally, if a fresh and impartial young person goes through the socialist literature in books, articles, speeches and correspondences, he will surely get one impression. If I narrate the impression in one sentence, it might read as….,
“The capitalistic society is constituted in two tents named “bourgeois tent” and “proletariat tent”. The bourgeois are the root cause of grief and peril of this society. Proletariat should take over the rule of the society in their hand and they should regulate and control the social system in compliance with socialist policy and principles.”
Personally I am neither in favor of bourgeois nor opponent of proletariat, I have studied the nature, choices and intentions of proletariat, they are good people but they are not immune from capitalistic mind set. I do not criticize them for that because it has to be that only. Likewise, bourgeois are exploitative and moral less people but both (bourgeois and proletariat) are product of social evolution.
It is the great mistake forefathers of socialism did and that is exclusively concentrating on the above two tents. In fact reasons of social peril lie elsewhere. Existence of two tents of bourgeois and proletariat is the resultant product of social evolution. Even if proletariat successfully take over the rule of a society in their hand, the fundamental reasons of the root cause of the social peril still remains there. When socialism does not have knowledge of these reasons, how they will be able to establish a social structure that they dream.
Your views will support to arrive near to the fact finding.
With true regards,

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Harshad Dave
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