And Yet It Moves (Down)
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Profit debate: And yet it moves (down). Esteban Ezequiel Maito. Cita: Esteban Ezequiel Maito (2014). Profit debate: And yet it moves (down) . Dirección estable: https://www.aacademica.org/esteban.maito/5 Esta obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons. Para ver una copia de esta licencia, visite http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es. Acta Académica es un proyecto académico sin fines de lucro enmarcado en la iniciativa de acceso abierto. Acta Académica fue creado para facilitar a investigadores de todo el mundo el compartir su producción académica. Para crear un perfil gratuitamente o acceder a otros trabajos visite: http://www.aacademica.org. A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity weekly workerGaza protest Richard Bagley goes as n n Rate of proit editor. What’s going on n Alexander Parvus at the Morning Star? n Berlusconi’s back No 1023 Thursday August 14 2014 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union www.cpgb.org.uk £1/€1.10 Scottish national consciousness is complex 2 weekly August 14 2014 1023 worker LETTERS Letters may have been - MM] and the formation of a popular the biscuit for absurdity”’. I have that if a meteorite struck the City of these are honourable people, whose shortened because of militia under democratic control”. awarded Peter the biscuit for twisting London that might be very damaging hearts are 100% in the right place. space. Some names But we also claim that, “As the an argument for nefarious purposes. for British capital, but it would hardly What matters to me is where they may have been changed class struggle intensiies, conditions Time did not allow me to develop constitute a progressive advance”. This stand on defence of the Palestinians, are created for the workers to arm this point further. So let me add that is a daft argument, made more stupid not on their suspicions about what Spart caricature themselves and win over sections of Gaza is violently oppressed by Israel by its apparent cleverness. The defeat happened decades before most people Corey Ansel’s letter (August 6) the military forces of the capitalist in alliance with and supported by of Cameron in the referendum will today were actually born, and which usefully reports a rare small political state.” So we do not exclude the British and American imperialism. damage the Tory government. But, so they therefore cannot have any irst- victory for independent working class possibility that sections of the police, How would Palestinians ‘vote’ on the goes the argument, if a meteorite came hand knowledge of. politics in the USA - the election any more than any other section of break-up of Britain? I think the answer and struck Downing Street, blowing Ian Donovan of Kshama Sawant to Seattle city the capitalist state’s armed forces, is obvious. Cameron to kingdom come, would that email council in October 2013. He rightly can possibly be won over - though, of Of course, it is the accepted not be the same? Well, one is a political draws attention to the unavoidable course, we recognise that at present ‘wisdom’ on the English left that defeat for the Tories, which inally Safe italics limitations of communist participation conditions are adverse for doing so. Scotland is not an ‘oppressed’ nation. destroyed the Act of Union. The other Paul Demarty notes with some in local government, especially as a Hence, our immediate demands in this It is such obvious common sense that is a natural disaster, which does not! dismay that half of those killed minority. But the letter also regrettably ield include: “Rank-and-ile personnel nobody spends more than two seconds Steve Freeman to date in Gaza are “women and displays the Oehlerite sectarianism in the state’s armed bodies must be thinking about it. What we can say is LU Scottish Republic Yes tendency children” (‘Only an Arab revolution (from Hugo Oehler, 1903-83), which protected from bullying, humiliating that England is the dominant nation can liberate Palestine’, August is the dominant political feature of treatment and being used against the within the UK. Scotland is one of the Pinhead 7). This contrasts strongly with the US-based ‘Spartacist’ tradition. working class; There must be full smaller nations and it does not have a A very strange letter graced the his stance on Northern Ireland This poisonous Spartacist inluence trade union and democratic rights, right to self-determination. Wales was Weekly Worker last week (August (‘Keeping disagreements hidden’, is reflected most transparently in including the right to form bodies such conquered and Scotland was sold by 7). Tony Greenstein is dancing on May 15), whereby the abduction the language at the end, referring as soldiers’ councils. The privileges its upper class. Neither constitutes a a pinhead, when he argues that it is and murder of Jean McConville to a “steeled Bolshevik party” of the oficer caste must be abolished. democratic or voluntary union. perfectly possible for Jewish people is interpreted as an aspect of “the and the Committee for a Workers’ Oficers must be elected. Workers in My main point was that this was to be anti-Semitic. I have to say that, inevitable bloodshed of a guerrilla International’s “appetites”: both are uniform must become the allies of a battle between unionists (‘no’) and as I understand anti-Semitism as a war” and the outcry over her language tics of James Robertson’s the masses in struggle” (CPGB Draft anti-unionists (‘yes’) with a bunch of form of racism, no better or worse disappearance put down to feminist cult group and its offshoots. programme). fence-sitters wobbling in the middle. than any other kind, it means hatred sentimentalism and special pleading. Comrade Ansel rightly points out Comrade Sawant’s talk of “consent- People will vote to keep Queen Anne’s of people of Jewish origin purely I am pleased to see that comrade that the CWI’s website overblows the based policing, where the police are bloody Act of Union of 1707 or for for reason of that ethnic origin. A Demarty has undergone a swift signiicance of the very limited victory genuinely accountable to the people”, its repeal. I described myself as an completely indefensible attitude and political evolution over the last six on the $15 minimum wage issue. But is indeed unduly ambiguous. But extreme anti-unionist. The 1707 Act of sickeningly stupid. weeks. I expect a thoughtful piece on it should be recognised nonetheless comrade Ansel counterposes an ultra- Union deserved the contempt, hostility If any Jewish person, for reasons of safe spaces for women in due course. that this is a victory, even if it is a leftist line. His use of Trotsky is a bad and sheer hatred from every democrat, mental aberration, were to hold such In the intervening period, could you very limited one. If a strike won only piece of citation-grazing in support including working class democrats (or a position, the logical thing for them please stop him from intuitively limited concessions, it would still have of this line: the quotation is from communists). Merchants and slave to do would be to commit suicide. italicising nouns to emphasise any won concessions. Communists need to the History of the Russian Revolution traders thought the act was brilliant in Indeed the example Tony gives, of thing that he thinks might confuse the be able to distinguish limited victory (chapter 7, ‘Five days’), and it is not helping them to turn a proit in blood some nutcase of that ilk in Israel, advanced worker? from outright defeat, and comrade a programmatic proposal at all, but and treasure. seems to have done the next best thing, Yours, in adjectival solidarity, Ansel’s comment effectively erases a description of the sentiments of I am an English anti-unionist or and forsworn having children because James Denton the difference. the Petrograd crowd in the February an anti-unionist living in England. of his supposedly tainted blood, or email He links the issue to the rather revolution. As for the Bolsheviks, According to the CPGB, this makes similar rubbish (maybe he did not have inglorious story of the CWI’s both in 1907 and in the witch-hunt me a Scottish nationalist. This takes the bottle to kill himself outright!). NHS march predecessor, the Militant Tendency, after the July days in 1917, Lenin was the biscuit for absurdity. The CPGB The same considerations would go, This summer will see a long-distance and its period of leadership of a left- assisted by Bolshevik sympathisers in seems determined to big up Scottish hypothetically, for anyone of English People’s March for the NHS across Labour coalition controlling Liverpool the Finnish police. It is hardly likely nationalism by labelling every anti- origin who held such a bizarre view England. The protest is being led by city council in the 1980s. He says that there would be such persons if the unionist a Scottish nationalist. This of his fellow nationals - logically he a group of mothers from Darlington, that Militant “existed primarily as Spartacist caricature of Bolshevism on has gone to such lengths that Sarah or she should do the same. county Durham. Following in the an appendage to the Labour Party the question of the police, followed by McDonald has abandoned the class But I am interested in political footsteps of the famous Jarrow and did not hesitate to boast about comrade Ansel, was adopted. struggle for anti-nationalism. phenomena, not things that, if marchers, back in 1936, the group of increasing the Labour vote”. This Mike Macnair The advanced part of the working anything, bear a strong resemblance ‘Darlo mums’ are organising a replica is another example of Spartacist Oxford class in England is democratic and to the frequent deranged high school march in support of the national Oehlerism: the Militant Tendency was anti-unionist, not Scottish nationalist.