Our Politics Start with the World

by Jack Barnes, Steve Clark

"Electrification is an elementary precondition if modern industry and cultural life are to develop, and class conscious workers fight for it to be extended to all the world's six billion people. This fight is a prime example of how proletarian politics, our politics, start with the world." —Jack Barnes
The huge economic and cultural inequalities between imperialist and semicolonial countries, and among classes within almost every country, are produced, reproduced, and accentuated by the workings of capitalism. For vanguard workers to build parties able to lead a successful revolutionary struggle for power in our own countries, says Jack Barnes in the lead article, our activity must be guided by a strategy to close this gap. "We are part of an international class that has no homeland. That's not a slogan or a moral imperative. It is a recognition of the class reality of economic, social, and political life in the imperialist epoch."
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228 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Marc Lichtman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The change in the Socialist Wokers Party's position from an anti-all-nuclear power position to a pro-nuclear position based on the fact that it is the only way the underdeveloped world has of catching up with the imperialist powers.

The huge economic and cultural inequalities between imperialist and semi-colonial countries, and among classes within almost every country, are produced and accentuated by the workings of capitalism. For vanguard workers to build parties able to lead a successful revolutionary struggle for power in our own countries, says Jack Barnes in the lead article, our activity must be guided by a strategy to close this gap.

Also includes: Farming, Science, and the Working Classes by Steve Clark and Capitalism, Labor, and Nature: An Exchange by Richard Levins, Steve Clark

[Vicky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some important working class lessons to remember: the vanguard of working class leaders will be part of a broader revolutionary movement. The fight for a workers and farmers government starts at home. The international fight for socialism follows each national fight for socialism to overthrow each nation’s capitalist system. Cuba is the example of a break from Stalinist counterrevolutionary system. Cuba is able to achieve much in the way of organic farming because it first made a revolution and changed the social relationship to work which is different from how workers or farmers under capitalism relate to work.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent!