[A-List] Sino-Soviet Split - 1st installment

[Charles Brown]

*	From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  

 
This new proletariat class, not having existed 
before the revolution, had not had the experience of being oppressed by 
capitalists. In fact there was a shortage of capitalists to realize the 
triumphant class struggle that was supposed to be the victorious outcome 
of the revolution. Yet it was problematic for the new proletariat class 
to be a new antithesis against a nonexistence thesis of capitalism.

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CB: And I'm thinking, a group, gigantica mass,  of workers cannot really
become a proletariat without having to struggle against a real bourgeoisie.

And , I've been thinking for a while, the Chinese Party's experience may
have taught them that there is no theoretical , "classroom" path to teaching
tens of millions of peasants to be "real" proletarians:

No path to socialism , bypassing capitalism, as the slogans once had it.
History has confirmed and enforced a rather more "stagist" and orthodox
Marxism than some comrades would like.

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 The 
revolution provided the solution by creating a class of state 
bureaucrats, known as party cadres, which opponents immediately name the 
New Class. Notwithstanding the ideological role of the party cadre is to 
guide the revolution toward socialism, this new class acted essentially 
as management against labor in the new industries to facilitate a 
controlled class struggle toward socialism. The socialist proletariat, 
in the absence of a capitalist class, mistook the bureaucratic 
management class as the target of class struggle and played into the 
hands of reactionaries. This eventually culminated in the Solidarity 
Movement that began in Poland, a broad anti-communist social movement 
that united the Catholic Church with the anti-communist left. <>



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