SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Leaders

Socialist Action No. 88, 8 February 1985 · pp. 7-8 of the scan · 384 words

The scan: 088-feb-08-1985-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 7 of the scan

What is the cause of such satisfaction with the workers' leaders on the part of the bourgeoisie over there in Britain? It is due to the fact that the DOCCO SC themselves trained these leaders.

How did they get the opportunity of training 'labour' leaders? This was due to the circumstance that powerful and cultured, being the ruling class of an advanced capitalist country. As fast as the working class advanced workers' leaders.

cultured, have work upon who they were every factory, the country. lecturers and so forth, all cunningly turned on to each newcomer among the And in this hypnosis of a way of life lies the art of a ruling class, a powerful, hypocritical, base, greedy class — an art wulen consists in exercising an everyday influence whereby to subject to itself CONICS forward from among the working class, everyone who stands a head taller than the other in in every ward borough, in every town and throughout There is now in Britain a government of Mensheviks and in Turkey a bourgeois-llaulolaust government this bourgeois-nationalist government of Turkey has found it necessary to abolish the Caliphate. The Caliphate is the central institution of Pan-Islamism, that is, one of the most reactionary trends in the entire world. But the Menshevik government of Britain has re-established the Caliphate in of the bourgeoisie its Moslem ter. A second conclusion, portant, declares: socialist construction after the conquest of power easier in countries capitalist civilization than in countries which are economically backward, like ours. working class to break through to real proletarian power, to dictatorship, wil be incomparably harder than it was fol us. But once having broken through to poster. it will advance much quicker and much more easily than oursetes relationship , no less imwill with higher This means that for the British the politics, preponderance to socialism Sokola between superstructure. But this is certainly not the case. Dialectically, the basis, as we have seen, will, in spite of everything. secure its victory. In other words: a high level of technique, even througt barrier of ultra-conservative nevertheless will manifest its lead socialism sooner than in countries witt a low level of technique That, comrades, is sha: I coat the fundamental ansare to be = t which

page 8 of the scan

Socialist Action 8 February 1985

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