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https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/the-democratic-road-to-socialism-a-reply-to-mike-taber/
My comment on Blanc's reply:
How odd that Eric Blanc would take Sophia Burns’s words on “dual power”
as good coin in a discussion like this. She is very well-intentioned but
she has come up with her own definition rather than one commonly
understood within Marxism. Just consider her citation of a neighborhood
vegetable garden as an example of “dual power”.
Furthermore, there is no “insurrectionary/dual power” strategy as such.
Marxist strategy flows from concrete conditions in the class struggle.
We are so far removed from such conditions in the USA, despite Sophia
Burns, that it makes no sense to refute a strategy that nobody supports
in the here and now. As for Kautsky’s declaration for the need for a
revolution, I don’t know what to make of that. Every self-proclaimed
Marxist in history has been for revolution, including Stalin–the
greatest counter-revolutionary outside of the capitalist state.
In referring us to Kautsky’s writings, Blanc leaves us with slim
pickings Empty declarations about the need for socialist revolution are
practically useless. I discovered that long ago when I ran into the
articles of Daniel De Leon.
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