These three comments taken together show that the public splits that broke open in Sri Lanka and was first analyzed by Democratic Power do not take place within a national but an international context. The Nanobureaucracy cannot hide the working class and intellectual disapproval of their work and the dissatisfaction with its results even on their own page and even with biased and disruptive moderation practices.

This is a good observation revealing the Nanobureaucracy’s shift away from Leninism towards a petty-bourgeois orientation.

We must also point out a few weaknesses in the analysis of PeterHL. These result from a poor understanding of Marxist economics, the failure of party educational activities, and the anti-intellectualism promoted by the bureaucracy.

To argue that land has no value is absurd as the price at which the land sells reveals its exchange value in relation to money. To argue agricultural land has no labor within it is also to ignore the work of laborers in road building, irrigation, and others to prepare the land for agricultural use. It also devalues the blood spilt in the conquest and defense of that land, which itself must be reproduced to create future generations using the value contained in that land.

Here the confusion seems to stem from irrational arguments. If inflation and general price increases are synonyms, one does not have to be the sole cause of the other. The devaluation of currency can also relate to supply and demand. In general, increased economic activity leads to inflation, since the circulation of money, its reuse in multiple transactions, creates a multiplier effect or effectively increases the supply of money. As a weapon in the class war, its purpose is to deplete the savings of the workers to increase insecurity and prevent strike activity and political participation. The higher prices also force workers into the conflict over wages but without preparation, a struggle they cannot win without devoting more of their increasingly scarce resources to explicitly socialist organizations. These socialist organizations and conclusions are more difficult to reach as reduced savings take time and money away from education. Also, trade unionism takes credit for gains made by revolutionary pressure on the government, taking workers and their dues and donations away from the more effective strategy.