Workers of the West , it’s our turn

Bourgeois proletarians Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us Tue Dec 15 07:41:48 PST 1998 Previous message: Nuts-debt, future surpluses, and compelled labor? Next message: support the pitt-johnstown workers Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Search LBO-Talk Archives Louis Pro posts an important discussion below. In some ways, the whole world socialist revolution waits the reversal of opportunism in key sectors of the working classes of Western Europe and the U.S., the socalled advanced capitalist countries. Every other major region of the world has had some type of revolutionary advance whether proletarian or national liberation since 1917, except this region. One can't help but think that the process of bourgeoisification of some sectors which Marx and Engels noted concerning England first, has grown into a major element of this blockage. The other workers and peasants of the world have not been able to swing the tide of history to socialism with the abstention and even opposition of the advanced working classes to revolutionary change. Charles Brown Workers of the West , it's our turn. >>> Louis Proyect 12/14 4:38 PM >>> >From IMPERIALISM AND THE SPLIT IN SOCIALISM by V.I. Lenin Written: October 1916 Published: December 1916 in Sbornik and Sotsial-Demokrata No.2 and the Collected Works, Vol. 23. Neither Marx nor Engels lived to see the imperialist epoch of world capitalism, which began not earlier than 1898-1900. But it has been a peculiar feature of England that even in the middle of the nineteenth century she already revealed at least two major distinguishing features of imperialism: (1) vast colonies, and (2) monopoly profit (due to her monopoly position in the world market). In both respects England at that time was an exception among capitalist countries, and Engels and Marx, analysing this exception, quite clearly and definitely indicated its connection with the (temporary) victory of opportunism in the English labour movement. erefore cowardly, remain lone on the field...." September 14, 1