Class, Bureaucracy And The Union-Form

Class, Bureaucracy and the Union-Form is an exposition of the trade union question and its implications for Marxist theory. Five supplemental texts were written after the original text was completed in January 2016. Each supplement is nothing more than an elaboration and when taken together, they form a complete project. They are published in sequential order in this book: "The Hoax of Business Unionism" is an abridged history of the American labor movement and an attempt to euthanize the ideological narratives and theoretical devices (business unionism, One Big Unionism) which seek to liquidate this history. "Trade Unionism from the Formal Subsumption of Labor to Proletarian Dictatorship" is a condensed restatement of themes from Class, Bureaucracy and the Union-Form and The Hoax of Business Unionism but told through the complimentary conceptions of labor's class struggles of the founders of the American Federation of Labor and leading Bolsheviks following the consolidation of soviet power. "Labor's Republic" begins with the conception of the proletarian dictatorship from Class, Bureaucracy and the Union-Form and elaborates on the forms and processes which constitute the raw materials for the republic of labor, dictatorship of the proletariat, workers' state as a concrete- rather than abstract- phenomenon. "An Argument with a Dead Marxist-Humanist" vivisects a 1975 letter from Raya Dunayevskaya to a News & Letters editor to expose the incomplete method used to develop concrete political positions that is so common across the socialist movement. The method of Class, Bureaucracy and the Union-Form is elaborated by way of comparison. "Prefiguring the Proletarian Dictatorship in the First Homunculus of the Workers' State" traces the experience of the proletariat in Homestead, Pennsylvania, from the opening of the Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works in 1880 to the triumph of reaction in 1892, to elaborate the instinctual tendency toward proletarian dictatorship inherent to the organic course of labor's class struggles.

• • Author: Michael Hough
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: May 01, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 204 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1546585842
• • ISBN-13: 9781546585848