On 19 Jul, 03:28, Tom Cod <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> OPPOSE BOOK WOR****P
> by Mao Tse Tung
> May 1930
It is somewhat ironic that you quote Mao in opposing 'book wor****p'
when the biggest exercise in book wor****p occurred in the 1960s when
Mao's 'Little Red Book' was everywhere in China! We might just as
easily say 'oppose newsgroup advice wor****p' because that is the
written word as well. Of course not all workers are going to read
Hegel but Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky did and what they learned
guided their writings and actions. No-one is saying that we should
hide away in a study for years and not participate in the class
struggle but we do need to develop dialectical materialism to guide
our actions in that struggle. Indeed, without that we are forced to
rely more upon older texts than ever because we won't be able to
'think on our feet' in this struggle. This was the critical issue of
the split between the ICFI and the OCI in France in the early 1970s
because without the development of dialectics the OCI took the
'Transitional Programme' as the 'last word' in Trotskyism.
Roger
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