Despite the apparent inconsistency of its positions however coherence of Militant's politics car easily be demonstrated by considering of the fundamental categories of Marxism.
Lenin, in his famous book What is to be done, stressed that by itself even the most militant economic struggle politics and bourgeois domination of the working 'trade unionist politics of the working class is precisely bourgeois politics of the working class , and class trade unionist politics is precisely working class bourgeois politics'.?
These formulas of Lenin are not polemical excesses. The struggle for economic demands, for example for wage increases or against cuts, is in itself in no way incompatible with bourgeois politics or capitalist class rule.
In the United States extremely millitant trade unionism has been associated with support for straightforwardly bourgeois parties. In continental Europe formed ov the Christian churches. In Britain the entire history of the working class movement since the mid-19th century is a combination of militant economic struggles dominance by reformism therefore by capitalism.
Lenin In Lenin's sharp but precise formulation, "The economic struggle of the workers often nected.... with bourgeois and even. in certain circumstances, 'trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie'.4 The fact that it supports or pursues would not in itself rule out Militant being CYCLE bourgeois political current — although for other rcasons Millam is ooviousy not a capitalist current within the working In order for a political current to represent a really revolutionary workIlg class force the movement it must defend the interests