Notebook XIII
No 1945
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[3][1] Irene Grant
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[5] Content of ____ty {crit.}
1) {Crit.} of Com. international ∴ USSR ∴ Stalin withdraw from world Revolution.
(a)
(b)
[5] […] speech in New York - forms of soc. property
[8] […]
Unless Trotsky really is trying … Stalin {rco}, then there w__ to us position discussing him.
But Trotsky says that __ have excused a permit of terrorism – ∴he doesn't, he says, try to do {any} with Stalin {rco}.
But was all _____ carried ___ly Trotsky {its}.
If Trotstky came in in Russia, what is there programme? - Like in 1917 - Lenin ∴ Trotsky want say the question is an abstraction. Such a change would actually. __tail wars about Russia on Russia ∴ revolution: ___ally out all _____ would say that in the meantime he would fulfil a “retreat” policy – _______ collectives, {stasty} peasant ________ __ (Possibilist régime.)
How is this consistent with POUM line which is ie Gvt with socialist _____? A soviet regime in Barcelona would mean war in Europe - They ____ use Frank ______.
[9] Theory of Trot.is not inconsistent, but worry.
(a) Because something has really been achieved […]
(b) doesn't ___ in Fascism Emergence of ____y ____.
R isf
(I) an illusion to have bourgeois resolution without workers pressing for socialism ∴ Bolsheviks must accept this.
(II) But this economically _____ in a _______ country ∴ would revolution ___ ___ condition (Permanent revolution)
Lenin accepted that regime can't ___ __ without ___ revolution happening.
1923 NEP […]
1925 […]
1926
1927 NEP ____ ________ - because gvt has ____ again _______ “peasants” … not ___ Fascist ∴ {werd} Socialist. Because Russian industry going to win ∴ Restart industry or …
Hence
1928 The Five Year Plans –
Here Stalin {rco}, had {ruly} one line (this couldn't [10] do more about world revolution. ___ Stalin started out on Socialism in he country.
Lenin would have done something {through} he never said so-)
At this {pant} Trotsky said go on - ic industrial workers must hold power, _____ peasants. He said you need not take ___ of peasant existence to such an extent. ___ in world revolution: China …
∴ Trotsky was {promited font}, - ____ - manoeuvre.
But this no real alternative.
Trotsky works on West as …
Trotsky is a Russian politician, the next after statism.
There was a break from _____ (permanent revolution) or Stalin - yet Stalin insists on ___ regarded as a Leninist. “They are all Fascists” is not a controler but a _____ for the masses:
Opposition of Lenin & Stalin on _____ of bureaucracy or reaction ______.
[11] What is happening in Russia now? _________ is “bad things”. ∴ ____ of revolutionary forces in this country. They do not think of world revolution.
____ it rallies (a) Trials (b) Russia ____ working classes.
_______
Position in Russia How […]
- real socialist political opponent.
- You can use Trotsky label to cover real mistakes.
- ________ non-Trotskyste polit-opponent (eg normal criticism.)
K.I. If you have, as here, […]
[12] Democracy is a […]
Dictatorship is a transition _____ - […] permanent; socialist says no. A materialist ___ […]
- Dictatorship in USSR …
- Or in …
- + competition.
Or ______ in USSR purely socialist.
Dictatorship is a strong executive - the question is from what? - a democracy my have to set up such to defend ____.
The ____ […] radical propaganda shoot - {sp} in England.
It cannot … catastrophic changes - begin there. socialism will not come in peacefully anyway.
Trotsky ______________
Nothing in Marxism wh. can answer to situation in which Socialism is _______ achieved.
[13] The achieved must be defended … of soc. movement […] of remaining asocialist or becoming conservative. Marx had no suggestion. Trotsky denies the achievement, … sacrifice it for utopia.
Forces socialism is not _____ _______ of meaning of life, or ∴ we are not afraid of this amont of partial achievement.
Com. attitude quite … developing revolutionary consciousness.
The only answer for Marxist is early Marx.
The ____ expresses a real crisis one to Russian achievement.
[…] Every achievement is the negative face that hasn't been achieved.
____ what you do -- […] USSR
[14] […]
[15] - not a question of _____. Can have a complete move to Fascism with a handful of Fascists. Only hope is not to have a situation let. Democracy. Capitalism, unless you are prepared to put socialism in its place.
Com assertion that you can't reform system under capitalism. In an exploratory capitalism you can get reform? ∴ theory of ____ the middle-class has no ____. They will go ever __ _____ who offer a solution.
2 leady group: Capit. oligarchy
[…]
Socialist must do the same as Fascist - offer a real socialism solution to a real problem.
Pop. Front is unity every ____ against Fascism united front unites one class.
Liberals is the {comity/country} identify society with Capitalism.
You can't run a class war front [16] {and} then. ___ the Liberals obey now no class war - you can […] Party.
New human ____ has to be evolved - and used as steel-ribbing of the soc. parties.
Trotskysm is (a) anti Russia -(∴ unreal)
(b) {fostery} cheap hope of automatic value of socialist happening.
If Sov. Russia included in any manifesto should it be cardinal _____ or merely included?
What should we then
[17] Karli: Early Marx.
soc. achievement ____ ___ has forced a crisis in where socialist movement inside ______ Russia - […]
(a) Socialism
(b) class war
(c) Nature of Revolution
(a) […] […]
On Thesis über Feuerbach - soc. soc.? is human society. By human he meant animal character __ humanistic as vs. {their live} [18] Soc. shaped by achievement of community - This has a direct relation to question facing {principle} in Russia today - Socialism, Fascism, when question of forms is up.
(b) Class war, ____ of working class, I am … […]
The early Marx 3 relevant points (I) W. class not defined by factual social … […]
i.e. Society could consist of worky people, but ____ of owning people. ____________ Proudhon - Importance rises out of his relation: […] society as a whole (cf. Hegel or “totality”)
There (a) representative (b) its role in service _______.
Meaning is - Only whole of mankind has significance meaning - ∴ _____ of mankind is history, of mankind as a whole, […]
[19] This is Marx's historical materialism. - He assumes that material production must be to the road of mankind as a whole. But if you assume that development of production is _____ condition, […]
Middle class […]
But -- why __ this effort of w. class be successful? Marx […]
[20] it […] this is the real class consciousness. […]
Some of the w. class […]
C. Nature of Revolution
notice !relig. […]
∴ related to meaning of human ____ […]
The Early Marx revol. change = breaking in of force […] (refer to Hegel Weltgeist.) In Marx, it was seen fulfilment of men = nature of history.
[…] [21] not a subjective thing, this change.
Change comes from nature of man (not subjectivity)
change comes from without (as it where) " would disappear - become a choice of change. Necessity would cease, freedom would begin.
This went … […]
The intellectual climate was simple improvement to Early Marx. It even made Marx himself … in a Hegelian jargon. Even early Capital is unecessarily abstruse.
[…] critical works of Marx were related to theological problems of time - vs. Baner vs. Stirner, vs. Proudhon - (Heilige Familie written vs. B. Bauer, Heilige Marx vs. Stirner, __ anti-Proudhon, i.e. “Poverty of Philosophy”?
Proudhon formulated “free co-operation of individuals is socialism” - i.e. cooperative [22] idea - This Marx work … in society as such Lenin … were real socialism.
Feuerbach was the man who mediates the {theological/theoretical} problems to Marx.
On position (theological) was Marx's man interest. Just as John Mac. sp. (understand w. K. class restructure of society)
Ruch. Implicits in Jewish Church of Revol: what about Jesus regarding arrest & trial?
Jesus = relig. refers community
[…]
Three Temptations, show he underst[and] not polit. ____ not supernatural. not (______) economic. attach 3 interprets to dominant interprets of this time you see how alone he was.
{W.} K. __ material his ___ of history = growth of progress were inevitable, not : {strange} line, but __ death & rebirth; it did not ____ supernat. intervention, no complete separation.
[23] Jesus = prophete s priest
men must ask & {late} responsability instead of “______ing __”. It is up to man; it is man who must do the {forgering}: man {in/is} turning from___ negate his own natures ∴ he has to turn the converted.
The point asked, was that Jesus that of Theocracy.
I. Implicits of revolution: Jewish Church.
“Not destroy, but fulfil”, how much he condemned
authoritative, or avoided Church.
Jesus began in Synagogue. […]
In J. position we see a free person naturally acting ____ -- as opposed to law: 2nd mile, woman. Year - real attitude, outcome of inner attitude.
Re: […]
Reaction of Church: […] ”Phar____ aff____” - Jesus said “Every plant --- ________; let them alone.”
Second Point: now in addition; following this _____ ____ of g. to become course of opposition.
Who do men say I am?
Peter's answer, means turning fit - he sees he is being [24] misunderstood -- + ___ into ___ aggressive policy. After the answer Peter gave the points __ “Go up to Jerusalem suffer many changes, the ___ to death. Peter {remonst} ∴ he thinks traditionally of the “Christ”. Some after comes the departure for Jerusalem. __ than material about “Signs of time”. {Cloud} = sign; {touch} wind blow = tent – “How cannot you see the signs of times”.
Cf. the Galileans (Jacob Maccabean) – unless he {refont} shall all perish. Obvious that Jesus was not looking on situation as polit. prob. leading to polit. action __ ___ an understanding of real _____ for “freedom” should have been present specially among disciples.
Phariseis come said “look out, ” “Go back there that did for (Herod) that prophet.
Jerusalem was apix of ____ _______ − ∴ they must know that he will be killed − not because all prophets were − but because they were the religious centre.
Didn't fall into the political traps − remained religious ___ ____.
“______ have ______ ______ drawn across the ____ If you think the is Caesars give it back - But I'll go on {Dermanty/Gesemany} that you do the just ____ ___ the multitude”.
“Beware of Phar __” “__to the son of men”
“Be y not Rabbi” “Call no man master?
“Greatest among you will be your minister”
[25] “
{Karli}
Here ______ the political aspect in relationship of the Romans.
A serial revolution in Jewish society was a religious revolution for the Jews - it was a theocracy.
Did Jesus suddenly in the trial, realize that he had {restored/relooked} something *[2] − i.e.that Pilate _____ come out - for him, even bring him to power − that he {covered} come to power, + on the side of the Romans − perhaps even become Roman Emperor! Only this could stop from going on to power.
Did death was the way to ____ him […] clarification it was instituing.
Kenneth Muir Heart 2XL message.
Power to … of success.
Period of disaster before universal socialism. Defend on it things
1) Complete clarity
2) Complete commitment
[26]1) Not _______ intellectual - _______ we must be clear where we differ from […]
a)
b)
c)____ diff. from orthodoxy Not enough __ knows that Jesus has been constantly _____es. We must know what in Gospels are reliable.
Must know what in worry with “fashionable theologies?
This ____ Earlier, this are__ “true” then Gospels. -
State plaintly that characterics of ______ are a _____ of Xty - FV of an […]
But clean in feeling in faith (religiously clear). Intellectual clarity insufficient.
Not ____, but swimmers.
Nature of __belief […]
[27] 2) Commitment
Intellectual agreement is not agreement in Commitment.
Attitudes to Churches - Difference here
Attitude to democratic method - difference these
Clarity, commitment - ____
Nature of commitment - Give up ____ to cause of Socialism _ for such ____ likely, W. happen - he must see ____ failure, or get stand by the government that seams the______.
[28] Early Marx
[…]
The answer is NO. Early Marx condemn the essential elements.
The wider conception is the pocket torch − your own affair!
Objectivation v fetishization is only mentioned in Capital, but fully in the Early Marx.
The way human mind would work would depend on structure − in Capitalist world it would work an atomized fashion − He was ________ Cap ____ or saw it would think of everything in analogy to its economic terms. Capital is not a success as an Economics of Capitalism − it is a success as ______ __ _____ of conceptual life in Capitalist society. "a theory of exploitation", … its (exploitation) is a fact not a problem.
Liberal says if are exploitation. Marx […].
[29]
[30] Early Marx __ K1847. With Communist Manifest he went political.
Historische Materialismus{
Macmurray in Xty Soc. Revolution
Dialectical Materialism
[31]Past _______ - B______ Dec 28 - Jan 2
Karli
Dec 28 Three ____ _____
(1) Theoretical - Early Marx & Xty
(2) Religious work of group. Stand for message
(3) Working class movement task -
[…]
Time Table
| Tues. | Gen. outline of Marxism | I |
| Wed. | Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx | II |
| (Philos. Dev. of Marx) | III | |
| Thurs. | Materialistic Determination of History | IV |
| Fri. | Marxian Econ. Politics | V |
| Sat. | Early Democracy | VI |
| Sun. | Reform of Working class consciousness | VII |
Marxism Not a system of knowledge. A method of ______ social or historical happening. ∴ a prophetic teaching. Most powerful prophecy ____ Jesus - the evolution of a truth which this becomes active in history.
Since Jesus' revelation of nature of human life, there was _____, no other occasion on which formulation revolution [32] had such results in history.
But also a scientific method
(a) What it is?
(b) What are the results?
__ field in anthropology - a complete science of essential nature of man. Marx makes this {fundamental} to this method.(C° to collective part of theology - but we ____ regard it rather as philosophy - not biological anthropology.) Here reference is not to man, but to mankind - the genius - Like Jewish community, all human happening taken in refer______ mankind - this is the totality of reference ∴ is anti-individualistic (in Jewish community it was relation of community to God) Imp. form_____dy of his philosophic method.
_________ - K. totality. “Community” character of human individual. Only so could he use Hegelian method (turned upside down) - ie relation ___ of idea to real world other way round. But the real with which he started, must be a totality. (ie w. Marx mankind)
Man becomes fel. when society is such that man is free. Man here not just “an individual” of socialism is a condition of society in which man is free having overcome the community phase, it is society as whole which has [33]
[34] [35] [36]
[37] Early Works Marx
[38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
[50] Here he touches Jesus
[51]
[52] On Hegel that which …
[53]
[54] Marx said this ___ must apply to man, became [55] his activities ______ actual objects, which cannot revert inW the actor when ______ (e.g. a table!) Hegel hadaccepted what human activity {lear} ____ alienation about him activity of thought. (this are {Jeed of idea of _____} in community.
Marx.
(1) He reversed subj.-obj. relationship
(2) He {regarted} activity as {_______ly} ________eft
(3) He showed it ________ be the activity of a "separate” individuals at all - ____ of individual in community. Alienation or estrangement is the non-personal __ a non-psychological sense - i.e. they _____ an objective condition which means they cannot.
[…]
…the personal of man - it is complex tentative, but he almost … point! Macmurray eventually comes.
[55]
[56] Historical Materialism
[57] tragic fact with the division of labour which … Marx
[58] … the Spanish anarchists would reduce the ______.
Hence the special role of the proletariat who in fact suffer the result of self-estrangement, to bear __ themselves the of its resolution.
Marx never thought that the {prosperity} solution was a sufficient solution of the human problem.
Dialectical Materialism
Engels - Handbook of Marxism
Dialectic regarded as formal happening altogether (is a subj.-obj. happening)
1) change of quantity into quality as a dialectical process
2) Interpenetration of opposites: mutually antagonistic forces …
3) Relationship of theory (&) practice - not to be regarded as separate, but inter-related. Practice being the {corporation} of theory. Theory {it/if} widely spread {her} practical effects. in practice of masses of people (See Anti-Dühring.)
[58] understand society as a whole
[59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66]
[67] History & Class consciousness Lukács, 1923
[68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85]
[86] Reference of Xty - This is crucial
[87] [88] [89]
Missing pages
Pages 90-98 are missing.
[91] Saving, Remnant
(Feb. 4, 1938)
[92] [93]
[94] Kenneth Muir {Blake}