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...clearly China had enough workers for a "genuine revolution..." According to Mao: A Life by Philip Short, in the early 1920's there were 'about one-and-a-half million industrial workers in China, as against 250 million peasant farmers.' To assert
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Nat Winn added a new comment in Communism abolishes all forms of oppressionKeith, my point is is not that capital is insoluble contradiction with any form of oppression other than the exploitation of labor. I'm saying that the abolition of the exploitation of labor is tied up with abolition of all the other oppressive rela
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Keith added a new comment in Communism abolishes all forms of oppressionI am not sure I follow your argument, Nat. Ending the wage relation would end the exploitation of labor, right? That is pretty liberating, no? On the one hand you could say it is conservative relative to "ending all forms of oppression." On
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otto added a new comment in On the 'Rise and Fall of Maoism'Good piece. Recently I received an article by Maoistroad in response to articles such as the one cited above. Tithi Bhattacharya was not mentioned by name, but the quote “All people's wars are now 'armed revisionism” sure seems to fit. The armed re
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Its official: President Obama has taken to defending the use of drones in a 'just war of self-defense against deadly militants.' Link to the BBC article: Barack Obama defends 'ju ...
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Its official: President Obama has taken to defending the use of drones in a 'just war of self-defense against deadly militants.' Link to the BBC article: http://www.b ...
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Its official: President Obama has taken to defending the use of drones in a 'just war of self-defense against deadly militants.' Link to the BBC article: http://www.b ...
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Gorki added a new comment in On the 'Rise and Fall of Maoism'...clearly China had enough workers for a "genuine revolution..." According to Mao: A Life by Philip Short, in the early 1920's there were 'about one-and-a-half million industrial workers in China, as against 250 million peasant farmers.' To assert
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Keith added a new comment in Communism abolishes all forms of oppressionNat, I think that Althusser's version of the quote from the Grundrisse does a different job in Marx's text (and theory). here is a more complete version from Marxists.org It would therefore be unfeasible and wrong to let the economic categories f
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'I listened to this audio presentation by Tithi Bhattacharya and I'd like to respond to some points. The overall thesis is that Maoist politics are defunct, and that they ...


