[DEBATE] : Re: (Fwd) Crit of new UK climate blahblah

[Patrick Bond]

Dominic Tweedie wrote:
> >From the Introduction to "Reform or Revolution?" by Rosa Luxemburg:
> ...
> "The question of reform or
> revolution, of the final goal and the movement, is basically, in another
> form, but the question of the petty-bourgeois or proletarian character of
> the labour movement."
>   
Full respect to Rosa here, but the point isn't just about the dangers of 
petit-bourgeois conceptions of 'win-win' 'market solutions to market 
problems' that we so often hear from carbon-traders and their supporters 
in Greenpeace and similar groups. Moreover, opposition to Brown's carbon 
trading isn't going to come from a philosphically purist, proletarian 
labour movement. I was driving at something that can be argued within 
the radical petit-bourgeois array of forces I tend - for good or bad - 
to inhabit when emailing, namely, that some reforms strengthen 
capitalist hegemony; and some weaken it. I wish the SACP would address 
this division, when thinking through strategies of financial sector 
reform, for instance - I think that's been a particularly serious waste 
of resources and legitimacy for Communists - but stand to be corrected, 
Dominic.