Wot no Marxism 2008 thread?

[poster342002]

Class struggle is at a low ebb but is rising with increased strikes across the public sector,

Token last gasps (brought about by long-standing activists making a lot of noise) that'll simply be ignored until they run out of steam. Which I suspect won't be long.

 

[poster342002]

I recall reading Raymond Williams who described the working class being a collective culture and the middle and ruling class as being individualised, this no longer seems to be true.

I have to agree. In fact, I'd say the situation was now reversed: the middle and upper classes now all stick together like glue whilst the working classes are in a terrible state of individualistic, dog-eat-dog mentality. Just watch what happens when you raise a grievance at work - the bosses will all connive to get their story straight (I:E; deny everything) to the letter and will back each other up to the hilt - whilst the rest of your colleagues all bury their head in the sand and pretend not to have witnessed whatever it is your greivanceis is against (usually a bullying manager).

 

[Socrates]

Udo, you seem more of an autonomist than a leninist to me. would you agree?

 

[Udo Erasmus]

i think of myself as a Libertarian Marxist.

The Sunday Times at Marxism 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4321671.ece

 

[Udo Erasmus]

Marxism 1996:

 

[Macullam]

The union movement here is unsalvageable and unusable. Pretty much defunct and serves no real purpose apart from providing a career for union officials.[/QUOTE]

How do you account for recent strikes in Argos and recognition battles in call centres new industries with no history of union organisation, Capitalism continues to create its own gravediggers.

 

[gorski]

Wait till the Poles stand up...

 

[nwnm]

marxism 2008 -

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3DBD07545FD5A1C&page=1