Farooque Chowdhury

Marta Hernecker’s was not an adventurist-head and not an adventurist-voice, which made her a leading theoretician for people of her time.

The struggle for a just society is long, requiring action on many fronts

“California is a state of geographical extremes: the deserts, the sierras, the long ocean coast, and the central valleys. It is a critical agricultural state, and every visitor ought to travel through the San Joaquin, Imperial, or Sacramento Valleys to see the sources of the food we eat.

The working class, if it decides to win in class struggle, has to assess the power of capital. Without this assessment, the struggles the working class carries on against capital turn to adventurism or capitulation or puerile disorder.

Michael D. Yates has probed the questions in chapter 4 of his recently released book Can the Working Class Change the World?(Monthly Review Press, New York, October 2018). The chapter – “What hath the working class wrought?” – proclaims: 

The mainstream media including Reuters, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and The Independent among others reported on 22 February 2019: Incident of death and injury at Venezuela’s border with Brazil.

The United Sates has “officially” recognised a self-proclaimed president of Venezuela as the country’s president while the rightists are trying to create chaos on Caracas streets.

Again, Professor Michael D. Yates raises critical questions in chapter 3 of his recently released book Can the Working Class Change the World?(Monthly Review Press, New York, October 2018): “How much has the working class changed the world so far?

“Capitalism is a hegemonic social order. Capital seeks to dominate as many aspects of our lives as possible and to control every institution, from state to schools. Very little escapes its dom­ination, including our thoughts.

The working class has millions of tales. These are narrations of contradictions; these are descriptions of deprivations; these are tales of toil and torture; and most of these tales are untold and unknown.