[Individual-members-EL] international

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The writers of this letter - three norwegian comrades - have followed the debate about the strategy of the EL. We find it necessary to point at elements which this debate must contain if the EL is to find a way forward.
The marxism is not an infallible theory, but a perception of the world and an analytic method, which is a result of a historical development. The clasiccal marxism gives knowledge about the capitalism and its disruption, the man`s relationship to his own class and to other classes, and man`s relationship to the technology.The classical marxism assumed that a sosialist revolution had to take place in an advanced kapitalist society. In such a society there would be abundance of everything: Items rquired for production purposes, commodities, ressourses and culture. A revolution in a developing country would be missing all this.The sosialistic revolutions we have experienced so far have taken place in developing countries. Thus those revolutions failed. Marx imagined a sosialist revolution in a developed capitalistic society with civic democracy and political freedom. The classical marxism never claimed sosialism in one country. The marxism is according to its way of thinking international. Yet it was forced into a nationalistic attitude, because the revolutions took place in developing countries. We must once and forever take leave of this nationalism in marxism. Marx wrote in the Manifest that the history of mankind is the history of the class struggle. This class struggle goes on today - week in some countries - open and bloody in others. But the struggle between the classes goes on all the time. Marx gave us a detailed analysis of the capitalism and claimed on basis of this that the capitalist system would break down, because of internal antagonisms. To day the class struggle is international. The production process develops not only on a national basis, but in an entire international production process. At the same time there exists an antisocial private ownership. This antagonism between the antisocial character of the private owership and the social character of the production is the basis of the irrationality and the anarchy in the capitalism, and it will result in a violent clash. 
In this situation when the capital becomes more and more international the working class is stuck with the old national state. 
For the capitalists it is quite simple to turn the workers in diiferent countries against each other. Never has the conclusion of the Manifest been more actual: Workers in the whole world, unite!
Marxists must have a perspective which reach farer than the national state and must make plans for international strategies for concrete action to defend the interests of the working class and in addition strategies for the ultimate settlement with the capitalist system.
We request the EL to arrange a meeting for discussion of the sosialistic internationalism.

Arthur Lindbom, Gudmund Kollung Selvåg, Asbjørn Andersen.
Bergen. Norway.   
  
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