For Lenin, ideologies have a class character depending upon the real class interests of the classes engaged in political and economic struggle. The proletarian ideology is a scientific ideology because the interests of the proletariat lies with revealing the reality, obliterating the fetishistic character of the social relations in the bourgeois society and exposing petty secret of capitalist exploitation. Its interests coincide with truth, equality and justice. On the other hand, the bourgeois ideology stems from the interests of bourgeoisie in struggle with the proletariat to maintain its domination and exploitative system. Therefore, bourgeois ideology has a fetishistic character, even if individual members of the bourgeoisie are as unaware of this fetishistic character as individual members of the working class who have not internalized the dialectical materialist world-view and methodology and the science of historical materialism. Therefore, for Lenin, ideologies could be proletarian or bourgeois.
V.I.Lenin
Whither Working Class Movement?
Abhinav Sinha Indian as well as the International working class movement is facing a grave crisis today. Now it is not a matter of contention that the power of capital has dominated the power of labour ever since the fall of the workers’ states that came into being in the first part of the 20th … Continue reading Whither Working Class Movement?
Problems of Indian Revolution: Prospects and Challenges
Abhinav Sinha After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the disintegration of the mighty Soviet Union in 1990, bourgeois think-tanks and academia of the West reveled in hysteric caterwaul. The death of Marxism and Socialism was proclaimed; the age of 'meta-narratives' was finally over; the last oppressiveness of the 'modern' was finally … Continue reading Problems of Indian Revolution: Prospects and Challenges
The Quixotic Adventures (in self-defense) of the Fence-sitting “New Philosophers”
Abhinav. In September 2012, we had written about the Maruti workers' movement (https://redpolemique.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/maruti-workers-struggle-and-the-far-left-fallacy-of-the-new-philosophers-of-india/ and a slightly revised version https://redpolemique.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/maruti-workers-struggle-and-the-far-left-fallacyfantasy-of-the-new-philosophers-of-india/). These writings brought out the uncritical attitude of certain "far left" intellectuals (http://radicalnotes.com/2012/09/12/maruti-a-moment-in-workers-self-organisation-in-india/) and groups. We tried to demonstrate that the tendency of reifying and celebrating the spontaneity, indirectly belittling or rejecting the role of vanguard … Continue reading The Quixotic Adventures (in self-defense) of the Fence-sitting “New Philosophers”
Maruti Workers’ Struggle and the “Far Left” Fallacy/Fantasy of the “New Philosophers” of India
Abhinav Sinha (Revised and extended version of the previously posted article) In the recent years, we have witnessed a spurt in working class militancy in India. The relentless informalisation carried out by the Indian bourgeoisie since the late-1980s and especially after the introduction of the New Economic Policies by the Narsimha Rao government in 1991 … Continue reading Maruti Workers’ Struggle and the “Far Left” Fallacy/Fantasy of the “New Philosophers” of India
Maruti Workers’ Struggle and the “Far Left” fallacy of the “New Philosophers” of India
In the recent years, we have witnessed a spurt in working class militancy in India. The relentless informalization carried out by the Indian bourgeoisie since the late-1980s and especially after the introduction of the New Economic Policies by the Narsimha Rao government in 1991 has pushed the working class of India to the brink of … Continue reading Maruti Workers’ Struggle and the “Far Left” fallacy of the “New Philosophers” of India
The People’s Quest for the Alternative and the Problems of a New Alternative – Part I
The year 2011 has elapsed. Yet another year, imperialism and capitalism continued their death-dance of profit at the cost of human lives throughout the world. And in a more naked form than ever. In the age of Globalization, the capitalist system, critically crisis-ridden, continued to tear apart its remaining "welfarist", "democratic", "just and fair" masks, … Continue reading The People’s Quest for the Alternative and the Problems of a New Alternative – Part I
New Forms and Strategies of the Working Class Movement and Resistance in the Era of Globalization
1. Introduction Indian as well as the International working class movement is facing a grave crisis today. Now it is not a matter of contention that the power of capital has dominated the power of labour ever since the fall of the workers’ states in the Soviet Union in 1953 and China in 1976. Nevertheless, … Continue reading New Forms and Strategies of the Working Class Movement and Resistance in the Era of Globalization
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