POLI 364 Chapter : Seize Power or Seize the Factory & Is This the Time to Form Soviets?
9 Feb 2012
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The strike is not always the best weapon, due to its accompanying self-inflicted pain. Instead, bordiga advocated for the observed phenomenon of workers spontaneously overtaking the factory and then continuing to work after having disposed of the capitalist managers. It is not that they have no wish to work, but that they have no wish to work the way the bosses tell them to. However, bordiga also warns that it is not enough to simply set up factory councils to take over the factory, but rather, the factory will only come after a political victory. Otherwise, the bourgeois instruments of force and oppression will always ensure the proletariat"s failure. Only a communist party should and would be able to carry out such an undertaking. the immediate task of the party is to educate and raise class consciousness. There is a distinction between the technical-economic and the political tasks of the soviet.
