On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 2:56 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll be responding to the idea of looting and arson being revolutionary > tomorrow. This bullshit has been around since the Weathermen Days of Rage > and it is just a reflection of the low level of class struggle in the USA, > as well as the baleful influence of anarchist ideology. > This ultraleft perspective appealing to the consciousness of 'the revolutionaries' and disregarding general working class political consciousness has been a longtime problem for the revolutionary socialist movement. It was the strong presence of ultraleftism in the early Comintern that motivated Lenin to write "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" in the spring of 1920. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/index.htm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#983): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/983 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76495839/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
