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Once again the CPUSA demonstrates its organizational bankruptcy by constantly rewriting and redeploying its idiotic line on the "defeat of the ultra-right." When will the current leadership clique actually just come out and admit that it is a strictly liquidationist tendency? When will they admit that they're now further to the right than Browder was? I was actually impressed (NB: it doesn't take much) by a few of the pre-convention documents in PA recently (especially Thomas Kenny's article "Tailing the Democrats and Forsaking Struggle"). Clearly it shows that there is a core within the CPUSA that is seriously dissatisfied with the Webb leadership, its blind opportunism, its national chauvinism, and its bizarre line on Obama that flies in the face of all "facts of the streets" in the US today. It is amazing to see that the party leadership still thinks in terms of how to "win the masses" -- virtually every strategic decision taken by CPUSA in the last 50 years has isolated them and split them from the masses. This ludicrous document shows us how out of touch the party is -- not only does it argue that we are in the "anti-ultra right" stage (which flies completely in the face of the sharpening class demands of the dispossessed immediately present in the US today), it suggests that we must move from this towards an "anti-monopoly" stage. In 2010, in a country where the poorest workers, undocumented immigrants, and the lowest semi-permanently unemployed strata are being dramatically pushed into political motion by their dispossession, how the CPUSA can actually see an "anti-monopoly" line as meaningful is insane. The union movement is in a long and devastating retreat. There is no vast "state sector" in which to struggle. The political vision of the CPUSA is organized around a situation that has not existed in the US for 80 years. The demands of the US poor are increasingly class demands, and the party's inability to think outside of the popular front model of supporting the "progressive" fraction of the capitalist class is going to condemn it to total irrelevance in the current moment (if it isn't already there). ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
