Whenever I remember Bakunin, the thought pattern revolve simaltaneously around Proudhon and Courbets nudes and bathers!Courbets canvass' are statements reflecting the toiling mass that Bakunin wanted to be empowerd.Seeing a Courbet nude Prodhon exclaimed: oh, you and your bourgeois fat women!If Prodhon was going nearer to the canvass he could have seen that the models feet were dirty!Like all other models of Courbet she was also a prostitute!
It's also funny that one wouldn't know whether the current modelling industry fashioning itself after the health, hygene fad and struglling to keep the look thinner and thinner or the elites wanting to hide behind this health fads supplied by the fashion industry!But definitely in Courbets time the prostitutes had to resemble the upper class at least in the body mass if not matching the wealth!Customer is the King, hah!
While the historians were depicting how the rulers doing in battlefields and how the loots been wasted in the courts some painters were depicting the marginal mass!In my observation The British Laboour Party is very much oriented with Bacunins idea that the collective of the working mass should be core behind political changes, not a 'party'!In that labour unions are still the back bone of the Labour Party and the Unions use this party as an arbitrary agent.Strangely enough that neither the Leninist nor the Trotskytes Marxists could present themselves as trustworthy or flexible enough partners to the British Labour Unions!But surely the mix has come to a saturation with a new genaration of Yappies en grossed particualrly in UK to acquire property and simply acquiring more!Prodhon's statement, 'Property is Theft' is very much befitting to British Isles as it has become the most favourite destination of the KGB backed Russian oligarch!
With all the mix of the British labour party and it's influencing power British labour forces gets one of the highest packages on planet earth. Whether it might have been possible by the Marxists ruling Britain can be foretold by observing the pay packages Chineese labour force has been recieving or for that the living standard of the Warshaw Pact countrys in the Soviet Time.By crossing the Berlin Wall en masse the East Germans not only wanted to leave behind the political opression, they also wanted to reach out to the new frontiers of the 'coast of utopia'!
Where Marx and his Chums succeeded to threw out Bakunin out of the first international still remain central to how socialism would be achieved.I myself prefer to follow Bacunins way.It gives wider space to reflect!Not just British labour party, French Socialist party which have formed a few post 2nd World War governments also distanced itself from Marxist analogy and practises.In Europen theatre Marxist practises almost become synonymus for conspiracy, oppression, mass murders and exploitation of the labour forces for the party elites!
Other than the European theatre one of the most dynamic reflection of the First International Debate can be found in the way The Sandinisatas and it's leader Daniel Ortega operated after the Nicaraguan revolution and the way Venejuelas Hugo Chavez is consolidating his own power in the name of the mass!Ortega can stomach electoral defeat, Chavez can not even think of that!Another thing is with his oil revenue and personal apetite for power Chavez has much the same way can swallow and can even blackmail Ortega's democratic orientations as Stalin did throughout the great purges!
Chavez can count on that Bakunins ghost is as always keeping a close watch!!
Choyon
12/08/2010
Brittany
