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Transcript of LAF debate : The Folly of The Class Struggle

Steve Ash | 16.09.2003 06:16 | Analysis

A transcript of the talk The Folly of the Class Struggle: Towards a Refutation of Marx, given at the London Anarchist Forum on 12th Sept, is now available online.

A transcript of the talk The Folly of the Class Struggle: Towards a Refutation of Marx, given at the London Anarchist Forum on 12th Sept, is now available online.

This stimulated a very interesting debate at the LAF meeting (unusually well attended)
so I decided to make the transcript available online.

 http://www.angelfire.com/ak4/Forum/Folly_of_the_Class_Struggle.htm

Steve Ash

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Another middle class anarchist kiids rant

16.09.2003 08:45

Yes I did read it.
Such a wate of time.

ram


shaking head sadly

16.09.2003 10:08

The article merely dismisses a series of straw man simplifications of the concept of class. To pick up on a single point among the dross, the author says "all of these now generally desire nothing more than a more comfortable position within capitalism", apparently without the merest hint of understanding that this _is_ the basis for class struggle. The workers want a more comfortable position within capitalism, the capitalists want more profit - ergo class struggle.

Chekov - class struggle anarchist


Hail the messiah!

16.09.2003 11:23

Oh... its all so clear to me now.

There is NO class struggle.

I should just become unemployed and do no work of any kind.

Perhaps read more Hegel, Spinosa, and Marx- but again this sounds like hard work to me,
and there might be a danger of me producing something that has value
so I won't bother, because that might support capitalism in some way.

So instead I will do no work at all, not even reading or writing.
I will not even wipe my own arse.Thats just work for ignorant workers after all, they should go to university and learn something usefull.

Why had I never realised this before?
I've been so blind!

Pass the bong, dude- I need a hit-
i have to call my mother and hit her for some cash.

the revolution of everyday middle class pretentiousness.


Coming Soon

17.09.2003 14:35

What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us?

Organised by the Anarchist Peoples Front of Judea...

;-)