Politics and common ownnership

[alanjjohnstone]

Within the party case we acknowledge that the working class will determine their own means and methods of self-emancipation and that there will be a variety of ways of orgnising the actual implementation of socialist administration. Although it is not always emphasised enough, we accept that there will be a large degree of diversity in the manner this is done and that we only lay down guidelines that apply to political and social and cultural conditions that we face here. Other places and other communities will have there own approaches, depending on local customs and traditions. Often, we neglect to emphasise this flexibility of principles. After all, we are not anthropologists with detailed understanding of every nuance of social relationships in the world.

Having said all that some people may find this article helpful reading.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24981-across-latin-america-a-struggle-for-communal-land-and-indigenous-autonomy

As the socialist message grows and spreads and begins to incorporate more peoples, it will change and adapt its form to meet and fit specific conditions while still retaining its core tenets. I think many often overlook this and sometimes try to impose a euro-north american-centric view of politics and society. Marx i think qualified much of his work by saying it only applied to a particular region at a particular time and was not universal as  a World Socialist Movement we too must take notice of the world's diversity. 

 

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