Re: Proletrian Revolutionary?

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:09:43 EDT, KSamman@aol.com wrote:
>Louis Proyect, can you be kind enough to tell us what a
>"proletarian revolutionary" is?  Who does this person aim
>to liberate from the present system of exploitation?  Who
>is a proletariat?  Also, since you are claiming to be a
>proletarian revolutionary, where do you fit into your definition
>compared to, lets say, a full time "mother" or "housewife" in
>rural Java, Indonesia?  

Proletarian revolutionary is just another word for communist. Anybody 
can be a communist. Excluding Zizek, Hardt and Negri.

>Moreover, how do you, as a proletarian revolutionary, convince an
>Eastern European Jew, living in a settler colony in the West Bank,
>subsidized by the state, having 7 to 10 times the wages of his
>fellow
>Arab textile worker, to join together with a Palestinian in a
>revolutionary
>struggle?

They are a lost cause, just like the French Algerians or the 
Afrikaners.

-- 
Louis Proyect, lnp3@panix.com on 07/22/2001

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