By Angelo Aidan
( Kana’an eBulletin – Volume IX – Issue 2035)
The following is a contribution of KOL friend and reader Angelo Aidan from Jerusalem to an article by Adel Samara: “Fateh seeks Power…Hamas Subjugates Women and the Left is behind History”
Samara’s article can be located in Kana’an website at the following URL:
https://kanaanonline.org/en/2009/09/22/oslo-stan/
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This is my modest contribution to Adel Samara’s article:
“Oslo-Stan: Fateh seeks Power…Hamas Subjugates Women and the Left is behind History”
By Angelo Aidan
Dear Adel,
You wrote:
“For those who believe in making a change, to transcend dependency on bourgeois capitalist core regimes, to fight for women liberation and equality, and to practice resistance on the ground, it is necessary to draw a Marxist analysis of the situation. … Fighting corruption, women oppression, US domination is no less important than fighting the occupation.”
We, proletarians, do not lean on the belief in making changes while disregarding the Marxian directives on discipline regarding the conditions’ demands too. We are convinced that revolutionary modifications are possible while respecting the conditions authority.
In the “PREFACE TO A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY” (http://www.marx2mao.com/M&E/PI.html – on this matter, you should read the introduction too), Karl Marx wrote:
“My inquiry led to the conclusion that neither legal relations nor forms of state could be grasped whether by themselves or on the basis of a so-called general development of the human mind, but on the contrary they have their origin in the material conditions of existence …” (page 3)
And further, ” In the social production of their existence, men enter into definite, necessary relations, which are independent of their will, namely, relations of production corresponding to a determinate stage of development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation on which there arises a legal and political superstructure and to which there correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life-process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary it is their social being that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production … within the framework of which they have hitherto operated. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. At that point an era of social revolution … ” (p. 4)
Dear Adel,
You are absolutely right when you say that ” … to fight for women liberation and equality, and to practice resistance on the ground, it is necessary to draw a Marxist analysis of the situation.” But this those not mean that we need ” … to transcend dependency on bourgeois capitalist core regimes … “. On the contrary, this means that we need to descend into its reality. ” … the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society simultaneously create the material conditions for the solution of this antagonism.” (ibid, p. 5)
We are not to fight against all enemies at once! The struggle against the insurgent bourgeoisie, the imperialist one, the ZAR, the compradors, and the conditions too, all of them in one time, is based is an irresponsible attitude.
In short, my Dear comrade, in the time being, within our MANTEKA (zone), we need to change the conditions while supporting the revolutionary fundamentalism.
Yours,
Angelo Aidan – Jerusalem
PS: please, see also what FREDERICK ENGELS had to say about this matter in page 343 (http://www.marx2mao.com/M&E/AD78iii.html) at the beginning of “THEORETICAL” part of “ANTI-DÜHRING” .