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ANTI-JOSEPH
and the S.O.M.E.
(Self-Organizing Moneyless Economy)
Hypothesis

Some background:

"Anti-Joseph" is concerned with two events. The first event is the death of the Marxist Leninist Party in November 1993. The second event is the rebirth, early in the next century, of a worldwide communist movement worthy of the name. I seem, at the present time, to be the only person in the entire world who believes that these two events are linked. They are linked, not by simple cause and effect, but by history: the forces which destroyed the MLP are the same forces which will usher forth the proletariat as a class whose time has come.

I have given my principled arguments, both in summary form, and at length, on countless occasions. I have shown how we in the MLP did all this incredible work over more than 20 years to assist workers in their struggles and win their attention--so that they would listen to us. And when they have listened to us--what have they heard ? Leaving aside the dreamy proclamations about classless society and so on--the "underlying message" consisted of three points which can be seen in their clarity from:

  1. Joseph's single-point-of-control theory,

  2. Joseph's view that there will be no political life in the future,

  3. Joseph's stonewalling on these questions and his attempts to suppress all real discussion.

What have we been telling those workers who would listen to us ?

  • We plan to build a society which will produce LESS WEALTH than capitalism.

  • Our plan for the future of humanity involves the extinguishing of all political life.

  • Any questions about the above--
    will be answered when hell freezes over.
These were the concentrated features of our real political line
on the nature of communist society--which
the workers got NOT from bourgeois propaganda
about "what communists believe"--but from us.

I leave it to the reader to conclude whether
there has been any relationship between
what we have been telling workers
and what Joseph has called the "great demoralization".

Ben Seattle (cyberRed)
September 27, 1996 ----//-//

Ben

11.Dec.94

Ask Comrade Science
featuring Dr. Itzalzo Sympul
Professor of Dialectical Materialism
(Remember: "He knows more than you do")
cRed-68

4,200 words

48k

Mark
17.Dec.94
Ben Loses His Nerve
Det-69
10k
Ben

24.Dec.94

Mark Gets Burned
How Mark Uses Stalin's Theory
to Attempt to Extinguish
the Living Flame of Marxism
(and gets burned for his efforts)
cRed-72

11,100 words

110k

Joseph Green

28.Jan.95

(part one):
Left-wing neo-conservatives
The reflection of neo-conservatism
in socialist thinking
Det-74

7,900 words

81k

Ben

3.Feb95

The Confabulator Has No Clothes:
Why is Joseph Afraid
of Consciousness ?

How Joseph Revises Marxism to
Equate the Consciousness and Initiative of the Masses
with the Action of the Capitalist Marketplace
and thus Attempts to Bar the Door Forward
to the Theoretical Development of Communism
for the Sake of the Organizational Stability
of the Detroit-Chicago Sectarian Grouping
cRed-76

19,400 words

208k

Ben

10.Aug.95

A reply to Joseph's article "Communism as a science":
Six months of evasionism
Why is Joseph afraid
of communism as a science ?
cRed-79

2,100 words

26k

Joseph

15.Sep.95

Left-wing neo-conservatives (part two):
The mailed fist behind
the anti-authoritarian phrase

After 11 years of delay and many repeated requests,
Joseph has finally posted this article to the web.

This article is,
at last, available
here

6,500 words

Ben

24.Oct.95

But will the trains run on time ?
Why is Joseph Afraid
of the Masses ?

Joseph's worst nightmare
turns out to be anti-revisionist communism
cRed-80

24,400 words

250k

Ben and Pete

10-26-95
thru
11-25-95

Spam addicts can run but they can't hide:
Wanted--A Strap-on Spine
Whether it's "what you don't know can't hurt you"
or "fling shit and flee",
an interview with one of his supporters reveals
how Joseph's "CVO" attempts to cling to life
under the flimsy shelter of "information isolation".
cRed-82

17,800 words

184k

Alex and
Joseph

12-8-95
1-5-96

An unequal battle:
David 1: Goliath 0
"You think me a dog that you send after me
a simple shepherd boy!" roared the mighty Goliath.
But a new voice, inexperienced in polemics,
and armed only with honesty and humility,
reduced Goliath of the thunderous mouth,
to utter silence with a single paragraph.
Goliath

4,400 words

45k

Joseph
1630 A.D.
The Crime of Galileo
Joseph at last responds to Ben
Galileo
4k

And finally, one of the key documents
that started this all:

Ben

10.Mar.94

Ben's 19 Points:
The Party of the Future
Democracy Rooted in Scientific Culture
is the Basis of Unity
of the Proletarian Trend of Trends
cRed-43y

29k

2,100 words

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