It seems that Mr. [CR] is not so updated. He hasn’t even trained himself for long time to know that his leadership has already uploaded to the website the draft of the majority in Spanish.
This time, Mr. [CR] does not have his last minute data. Or perhaps he has a very very very old machine that does not let him check out the website of his fraction, and it doesn’t let him open the email where the document was sent, which was a draft sent to the minority for them to have right to give their opinion before it is finished; a democratic right that the minority did not give to the majority when they wrote their document.
They had to keep to themselves all the bullyness when the translation/technical commission of the SCI sent them 500 letters and documents that they have translated to the irascible ones of the Bay Area.
Anyway, let [CR] agree with [CR] and the leadership of his fraction.
However, when I read closely don [CR]’s letter, which I’ll quote here and I call all the workers to read it, I realize that there is no waste in this people’s opinion.
Mr. [CR] believes he is well trained and he claims to have a sociological methodology of searching the truth based on paroxysm of the empirical and pragmatic, where the reality is what the last data of the bourgeois press say; even more, what the bourgeoisie says.
So he affirms in his letter to comrade [SM] of South Africa: “Please explain, from your superior sociological methodology, where the data your current analysis comes from and why it is more valid than the daily reports from the journals and press we regularly review?”
[CR] thinks he is objective. He doesn’t depend on the theory or the program to define the life and the facts of the reality. He depends on the bourgeois press. This is a confession of a servant of the bourgeoisie.
And I’m not fabricating anything, is what he says:
“Please explain why this out of date article (The Myth Behind China's Miracle) with old data which is being daily supplanted (in the Asia Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post and the Economist) is the source that the majority depends on? Could it be as comrade CM stated that your tendency starts from your subjectively dependent program instead of objective facts which can be cross checked in real time?”
So, for [CR] and the other members of his petty bourgeois faction, the discussion between Marxists, the matter of China is not defined between who has the most precise theory and the best program to understand this process so complex and of first order for the international proletariat; for the minority the understanding of this process does not come from scientific socialism to understand the changing in-moving reality. According to [CR], the understanding comes from what the last Financial Times, the last Washington Post and the last Economist say, to whom [CR] has access with his great computer and long years of training.
The discussion is if the data are the latest and not about which is the correct Marxist Theory to understand life and transform it with a correct program in favor of the proletariat so the revolutionary arrive to the precise moment to the battlefield. [CR] is acting as a vulgar bourgeois analyst and not as a fighter of the proletariat who thinks, as Lenin said, THAT THE TRUTH IS A CLASS TRUTH, IT IS “THEIR” TRUTH AND “OUR” TRUTH. That is why the Bolshevik paper was called “The Pravda” – The truth, our truth, the truth of the working class against the truth of the exploiters.
The truth is a class truth. For Mr. [CR], the truth is what the bourgeoisie says. He has taken off his ‘Trotskyist’ mask and revealed his Freddy’s Nightmare face. And in two words he has sent all Marxism to the guillotine.
Workers: The bourgeoisie has their truth. They need to exploit us. They lie to us about what we get paid, they lie to us about what we win, they keep our surplus work and its monetary expression. Do not believe anything to the bourgeoisie. That is what we Trotskyists say.
What Mr. [CR], this renegade from Marxism, this vulgar pragmatic, has written crosses all limits of tolerance to be considered as a revolutionary. He has no shame.
For these people, the truth of the science is based on empirical data of the reality.
I have no doubt that we are before Anglo-Saxon pragmatic which repeat as talking parrots the pragmatism and empirism of their own bourgeoisie, founded in the ‘rationalism’ of the facts, with which the labour aristocracy and the high layers of the US working class was corrupted.
I’LL TELL YOU THE TRUTH, [CR]: YOU BELIEVE TO THE BOURGEOISIE WHILE, IN MY FACTORY, I TELL THE WORKERS NOT TO BELIEVE A SINGLE WORD TO THE BOURGEOISIE! NOT A SINGLE WORD! NOTHING!
That is why I’m a Trotskyist and not a servant of Obama. I believe noting to the bourgeoisie, [CR]! and I will explain you why.
Because in the bourgeois society, the capitalist never shows his profits. He hides it. That is why THE BUSINESS SECRET EXISTS, and the Trotskyist program is DOWN WITH THE BUSINESS SECRETS! Because it is understood that the capitalists lie about everything to hide their business, their profits and their conspiracy against the people and the robbery to the working class.
According to the Transitional Programme of the Trotskyists, the international working class must be educated on that.
Very good [CM, leading comrade of the LOI-CI]! Very good CM who, from the Transitional Program, has told the workers: Do not believe a word to the bourgeoisie! They hide their profits! In the 4 blocks of Wall Street 400 trillion dollars went through. The crac unmasked that bunch of parasites, and you come to cover them again. Yes, to cover that bunch of parasites who spent 90 trillion dollars since 2003/2004 up to 2007/2008.
Does your new data deny this truth, that is a class truth, and that makes the Chinese FDI look like just some change?
Do you think this report is outdated?
Just for being old we should not tell the workers this truth that comes from the program of not believing a single word to the bosses?
Does that bunch of parasites from Wall Street tell the truth to the working class or hide it? Do the imperialist press make a real denounce of the real situation of the working class and the exploited of the world? Do they tell the truth? Do they say how much do the capitalists make and how much the workers make? Do they tell the truth about Haiti that they invaded Haiti because of the huge oil that is the continuity of the Venezuelan’s? Is that what your Financial Times says? Liar!
In my factory, when we ask for a raise, the bosses answer to us that they have no money. The bourgeois journals never say that the bosses win a lot of money; they only do it in historical periods where they fight against each other and throw to one another their profits and robberies of thief gangs of the bourgeoisie disputing the feast of the exploitation of the working class.
What is characteristic of capitalism, and mostly of the imperialist parasites of this epoch, is that they hide. The bourgeoisie is a class that has to hide its profit, since in the capitalism the production is social and the appropriation is individual. AND THAT’S THE TRUTH.
And you are telling the workers to believe the last data of the Washington Post and The Economist. You defend the left pocket of your imperialist bourgeoisie, who lies every day and at real time to the workers from the Asia Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post and The Economist.
If our friend [CR] had read the last Financial Times, the last Post or the last Economist in 1997, he would’ve say: “Hey, Enron has super-profits. The technological industry is in full expansion. Those liar Marxists who claim that the rate of profits is exhausting because of over-accumulation of capitals in the Sillicon Valley do not explain ‘from their superior sociological methodology’ this data which can be cross-checked with the reality in real time”.
If our socilogy friend goes back to 1998, he will see a headline in the Washington Post or in The Economist which says: “Enron’s balance sheets were all faked since 1995. All the companies of the Sillicon Valley are broken. Bush goes to Afghanistan. A new war on Irak is being prepared”.
What is your cheap sociology and your ultimate computer good for when you believe everything the bourgeoisie says, [CR]?
As Hegel would say, everything comes chaotic and the scientific progression line comes circularly, dear [CR]. That means that the bourgeoisie lies, Mr. [CR]. It hides its profit, Mr. [CR]. THERE IS BUSINESS SECRET TO HIDE THE SUPERPROFITS OF THE EXPLOITERS! And you are telling the workers to believe in the paper that hides the business secret and the profits of the exploiters!
The other day we had an assembly in the factory where I work, and the bureaucracy of the union said that they asked for a raise to the bosses, and they told there was no money and they showed their balance sheets. So I told all my co-workers, against your methodology, that we do not have to believe a single word to the bosses. It’s a lie. They have money.
So the bureaucracy of the union brought an article of the Argentinean journal Clarin, showing that the bosses of the steel industry have losses in their factory.
And I told my comrades, Does anybody of you believe that there is a single factory which does not have a “white” (legal) balance sheet and another one in “black” (off the records) where the capitalists hide their profits better? And I was saying this while I set that piece of paper which you believe in on fire.
What is the “superior sociological methodology”? The one that starts from the principles, the theory and the program of Marxism or the one that starts from your blind trust in what the bourgeoisie says?
Why are you so enthusiastic in telling the workers to believe everything the bourgeoisie says?
To this point I really don’t know if you are a pragmatic, empiric, opportunist or a awful servant of the bourgeoisie that acts as the bureaucracy in my union.
I love the document of the majority of China. It gives a lot of quotations of the Marxist Theory and little data of the bourgeois papers. It just take these as simple data of the reality, since empiria is a moment of the science, not the science itself.
The method of understanding the reality, is not as the bourgeoisie says, concrete (your last data), then abstract (a study of it) and then concrete (cross check the study). Just the opposite, Marxism, to demolish the bourgeois political economy, proved that the method of the science is Abstract – Concrete – Abstract to reach a superior concrete. That is to say, from the theory and the program to the life, and from the life, the reality, to a new abstraction to process the multiple simple determinations to precise a concrete to approach life, which is in constant movement. That is why, the Marxists do not fall for appearances. We define the essence, which is where all the secrets that the workers must know are concentrated to free themselves from the exploitation.
Even if a pragmatic one, like you, do not understand it, the theory are just the laws that generalize the outcome of the historical process of the class struggle, from which a program comes from that approaches the proletariat to the conditions for achieving victory.
Your letter is a confession of a renegade of the proletariat fights, its lessons, theories and programs. You are just that: a renegade, but with an excellent computer.
We have already uncovered you in Haiti. We uncovered you in Taiwan, where you kept silence that USA with NATO have a military base. And if you had all the last updated information, Why in a 60 pages document you said nothing about this?
How did you forget about this? Did you forget that USA is occupying Formosa Island and Hong Kong since 1949, [CR]?
There are no more excuses. You have all the updated data, with the last computer of the last generation of the last model. It can’t be that you have bad information. For me, you are a servant of the bourgeoisie. And if you have the right to say whatever you want, I have it as well. I say it to the bureaucracy in my factory and to a “quack doctor” as you.
Tu claim that the bourgeois journals represent the feeling and the thinking of the bourgeoisie and from that you wonder why would their data be a fake. I quote you:
“4) Could you please explain why you think the daily reports coming from the bourgeois press of record (the same press the bourgeoisie use to make their billion dollar decisions) are just so much rumor, compared to the outdated citations you wave around as proof positive that a wing of the bourgeoisie agreed with the position you hold today way back in 2003-4?”
I believed that the state, according to the theory and the Marxist program (i.e. abstract: starts from the theory and the program, which is the generalization of life), is reduced to a gang of armed men (concrete, the essence). I believed that according to the historical materialism (abstract –theory and program-, again this ‘subjetivist’ CM) the bourgeois press was the transmission of fake consciousness to deceive the proletariat and the masses; and “thingify” the social relations of production to make them appear as natural, that is to say, to guarantee the relations of exploitation.
You say that the bourgeois press is there to tell the truth and faithfully represents what the bourgeoisie thinks. You don’t say that the bourgeois press is there to deceive the masses. You have no shame.
Workers of the world: We are before a shameless who calls to trust on what the bourgeois press says!
The Bolshevik workers do not trust on what the bourgeois press says, because it is there to lie to the working class, as every institution of the bourgeoisie such as the state, the parliament, the justice, the education and the government. Without a Marxist program the proletariat will be never be separated from the bourgeoisie.
And when the institutions of the bourgeoisie can no longer deceive the working class, they have their swords to cut the working class’ head.
Again the matter on the latest data. Nobody can hide today that Greece is in bankruptcy with 300,000 million dollars loss. But a week ago, nobody said that the JP Morgan, the HSBC and other gangs of your country had secret deals with the governments of Greece; yes SECRETS, so clandestine as the “black” (off the records) accounting of all the companies and so fake as the forgery of the balance sheets of Enron. According to them, Greece should not have more than 3% of shortage, it has to be inside the European Economical Community, and the Wall Street banks got “associated” (please, read well, “associated”, they became partners, they did not “lent”) with Greece, with a 140,000 million dollars loan in exchange of all the custom taxes and airport taxes of Greece for 40 years.
Did you know this? Did you know that Greece have falsified all the results of their balance of trade and current account balance? Did you know that your masters got the money to 3.5% and gave loans to 13.14% to Greece in exchange of a warranty of payment of the custom of that imperialist prostrated country? Did you know that? No. It was the bussiness secret. It was a scam to the people. That was the finance capital business with its Greek junior partner, which apparently made business in the shipyards, deployed a huge trade with Germany, but the real slice of the super-profits went to your Wall Street.
It was hidden, and now it bursts, when Greece can no longer hide it when it is about to fall off the map of the imperialist powers.
Quack doctors like you cannot understand that there are too many imperialist powers. Let alone can understand that Germany has said that it won’t give a single euro, because it will mean giving it to the JP Morgan. And when Merkel threatened to give some help to Greece, the German finance capital and the Bundesbank screamed: “Merkel out!”.
You cannot understand this because you take Germany as a vassal imperialism, when it has actually re-unified in 1989, it has the highest productivity of labour in certain branches of production in the world and has expanded its influence spheres to Eastern Europe.
Germany is not willing to pay the crisis of the junior partners of the imperialist banks of other country. This does not appears in the Financial Times, nor the Washington Post, nor any other paper which you say it represents the feel and the thinking of the bourgeoisie.
This might happen to workers without class consciousness, to whom the bourgeoisie hide its profits. But for you, who claim to be Trotskyist, to say it, it is really a shame. Dear [CR], you have sent Marxism to the guillotine.
In your letter you are very interested in “the latest data, the latest data”. The one who is concerned for “the latest data, the latest data” wants that the Chinese working class does not find out where did the bourgeoisie that is exploiting them today came from. You want “the latest data, the latest data”. That is what Hu Jintao and all the Chinese mandarins want. They want the Chinese workers and the workers of the world not to know a secret, which is kept locked with 7 keys. I’ll tell it to you, but keep it well, because it does not appears in the bourgeois press of the last years. But we, the Marxist workers with class consciousness, we do know it. Because sometimes the strings of history get cut, but the Marxists re-join them (as in Kienthal and Zimmerwald) as this time, where a fraction with historical consciousness has emerged in the FLTI.
I will tell it to the workers, even if you do not like it. The Stalinist boureaucracy, Mr. [CR], in 1975 made Joint Ventures in South Eastern China with 150,000 imperialist companies. That happened a lot of years ago. Those are very very old data.
The new generation of the continuity of those old Stalinist bureaucrats, who with Deng Xiao Ping made a deal for the restoration with Nixon, is eager for hiding this:
In those joint ventures, the old Stalinist bureaucracy sent all their children to the directive boards, as directors of the joint ventures. In those boards, the banks of the damned Wall Street four blocks have “forbidden” to have majority. Like this, “guised in red”, the Stalinist bureaucrats and their children, which were giving away the Chinese labour force as slave to the transnationals, entered in the boards of the imperialist companies. The shameless of Wall Street were hiding appearing as a “minority”, for making this process of transforming the bureaucracy into bourgeoisie not to reveal before the eyes of the Chinese and world working class.
Let’s say the truth about these “old events”, which you do not care about. In those Joint Ventures, the old Stalinist bureaucracy could make their children to become directors of the companies, front-men of the transnationals and like that they could OWN A PRIVATE PROPERTY AS A FRONT MEN OF THE WALL STREET BANKS AND INHERIT!!!!, which could never be done by the bureaucracy in a workers’ state. But, to do this, they all had to hide the Morgan Bank and the HSBC, which invested capital in 150,000 companies located in South East China. The finance capital gave the bureaucrat the right to inherit and acquire property, and the chance to ‘camouflage’ before the “equalitarian” consciousness of the Chinese workers. For that, they have to hide in financial paradise in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
That Money that you and the minority say that spins as a carousel in Hong Kong and Taiwan is the money from the Chinese directors that has to be put in Wall Street as it happened in Greece with the hidden business of the bosses of the banks of your country.
For that reason, we, the Marxists with memory and historical continuity of the fight against Stalinism, even before 1975, we will tell you another big truth that your imperialist press hides it very well: “Made in China” is where the profits and falsifications of the balance sheets of the companies of your country are hidden.
As we are in a pre-congress period, I respect your right to state your position, and I ask you to respect mine.
[JP], Metalworker from the steel companies of the “steel cordon”
Letter presented to rank and file metalworkers’ team of the LOI-CI., which proposes to send this letter immediately and spread all around the FLTI.