Re: [OPE] Britain--parasitic and decaying capitalism: A comment

You may want to read a devastating critique of Charlie Post's standpoint in
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! by Steve Palmer.

They are in FRFI 195 and FRFI 196

http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/britain/1041-labour-aristocracy-mythmakers-and-their-mistakes-frfi-195-feb-mar-2007-.html

http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/britain/1035-labour-aristocracy-ii-reformism-and-reaction-frfi-196-aprl-may-2007.html

I also wrote a series of articles (6) on the Labour Aristocracy and
Imperialism in FRFI 161 - 166. The first article shows how central to the
theoretical and political work of Marx, Engels and Lenin etc

The first article can be found at

http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/britain/1145-the-labour-aristocracy-and-imperialism-frfi-161-jun-jul-2001.html

I have no intention of answering criticisms of Third Worldism and my
suppposed division into 'bad' and 'good' capitalist countries. The points
are simply insulting.

David Yaffe

At 13:09 29/12/2009 +0100, you wrote:
>On 2009-12-29 03:05, D. Göçmen wrote:
>>labour aristoctratism functions almost everywhere almost in the same way.
>>The logic is the same.
>
>In addition to the serious deficiencies of this theory of 'bribery' that I
>pointed to, you may also want to read:
>The Labor Aristocracy Myth
>Charlie Post
>
>"Despite its intellectual pedigree and longevity, the labor aristocracy
>thesis is not a theoretically rigorous or factually realistic explanation
>of working-class reformism or conservatism. This essay undertakes an
>examination of the theoretical and empirical economic claims of the labor
>aristocracy thesis."
>
><http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1110>
>
>//Dave Z
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