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George is most certainly entitled to his opinion. q
Everyone agree the CPUSA was never a party of insurrection or a “party of a
new type,” Bolshevized. Nor were any of the anti-revisionist clusters of
the 70’s and 80’s. The question posed was why?
There is much more to creating a “party
In a message dated 1/25/2011 6:38:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, _Waist
line2@aol.com_ (mailto:waistli...@aol.com) writes:
There is much more to creating a “party of insurrection” than adopting
formal rules and the Leninists trappings, like saying we are guided by
democratic
Marxism recognises a class struggle . . . . in the most significant
thing in politics - the organisation of state power. Lenin
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Entering An Epoch of Social Revolution by Nelson Peery is available on
line in its entirety.
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We can honestly state that from the very
Dear comrades and friends,
Another brief comment. I did not talk of a party of insurrection. If anything
I talked of the question of the Bolshevization of the party. If a party is
Bolshevized, it should know how to work in a non-revolutionary situation but
should be prepared for an
My bad, but I did send in the correction.
Not revolutionary class but revolutionary crisis.
Sorry about the error.
Waistline
In a message dated 1/25/2011 10:00:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
geor...@micronetix.net writes:
It is certainly possible to sustain a Bolshevik party in
Dear Waistline,
Sorry, you did send in the correction. However, that only answers the very last
part of my criticism.
George
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There is much more to creating a “party of insurrection” than adopting
formal rules and the Leninists trappings, like saying we are guided by
democratic centralism. It was impossible to create, much less sustain a party
of
a new type in the absence of revolutionary CRISIS. The 1970’s,
Comrades,
Melvin states:
There was no class struggle means there was no struggle for and over the
organization of state power.
Class struggle is political. It is the life and death fight to overthrow
a social system. Class struggle is the struggle for political power. In the
1970's
Founded as a political trend, Bolshevism emerged as a political party a
decade later - 1912. Bolshevization means development as a party whose purpose
is seizing state power and establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.
A party cannot be Bolshevized in a non-revolutionary situation,
Class is a big word and not simply a power relation.
In say 1951, the Soviet working class was an industrial working class but
not an industrial proletariat. Sure, everyone referred to the Soviet working
class as the Soviet proletariat because of its position as shock
brigade, but there
In a message dated 1/25/2011 7:44:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
waistli...@aol.com writes:
Class is a big word and not simply a power relation.
In say 1951, the Soviet working class was an industrial working class but
not an industrial proletariat. Sure, everyone referred to the
Non-revolutionary periods are all the quantitative boundaries a system
goes through
before qualitatively new means of production begin to disrupt the unity
of the
mode of production.
Correction
Non-revolutionary periods are all the quantitative boundaries a system
goes through
I guess that at every epoch there arises notorious revisionists who have
surrendered to their disdain of that most complex and extraordinary class; a
class either loathed or obsessed by society; independent of many influences;
able to steer itself, much like their anti-thesis, the
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