According to Blanc our primary goal should be electoral, to follow the example of establishing the Labour Party in the UK. Here's how Lenin evaluated the Labour Party in 1920: . . . "However, whether or not a party is really a political party of the workers does not depend solely upon a membership of workers but also upon the men that lead it, and the content of its actions and its political tactics. Only this latter determines whether we really have before us a political party of the proletariat.
Regarded from this, the only correct, point of view, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeoisie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noskes and Scheidemanns." . . . [In the same talk Lenin did advocate that the newly formed Communist Party in Britain go into the Labour Party to organize against its leadership and their policies:] . . . "If the British Communist Party starts by acting in a revolutionary manner in the Labour Party, and if the Hendersons are obliged to expel this Party, that will be a great victory for the communist and revolutionary working class movement in Britain." # Lenin's Speech On Affiliation To The British Labour Party The Second Congress Of The Communist International [Session 16, August 6, 1920] can be found here: http://www.marxist.net/openturn/ click on "Entrism: Historic Documents..." in the left margin list, Lenin's talk is in the left margin list on page that then appears On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:58 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unbelievable. This idiot Eric Blanc argues that it was an ultraleft > mistake for the British Labour Party to split from the Liberal Party in > England, a bourgeois party. At the rate this guy is going, he'll be > working for Joe Manchin by the end of the year. > > https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/labour-party-uk-lessons-socialists > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6436): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6436 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80659635/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
