thanks Louis, excellent article. McNally references another excellent (and profound imo) article he co-authored with Charles Post "Beyond Electoralism: Mass Action and the Remaking of the Working Class" which he describes as being published in "Spectre 2, no. 1 (Spring 2021)" - which is simply labeled "Issue 3, Spring 2021" in print. While McNally's "What is the Meaning of Revolution Today?: Beyond the New Reformism" article is apparently a 'one-off' article available to the public at the Spectre website, his article co-authored with Post is behind a subscriber paywall. Subscribe! and donate.
On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 7:15 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > By David McNally > > The decline of the idea of socialist revolution thus goes hand in hand with a > relative collapse of insurgent, leftward-moving popular insurgencies. > > This is the context for the rise of a new and bolder social democratic > reformism, particularly in the U.S. Stimulated in part by the episodic > successes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns of 2016 and 2020, a > layer of intellectuals and activists in and around the Democratic Socialists > of America (DSA) has embraced the parliamentarist legacy of German social > democratic theorist Karl Kautsky.4 Today, the new Kautskyism reinforces a > fixation on the electoral arena that threatens to disable sections of the > socialist left. The embrace of electoralism underpins left practices that > de-emphasize mobilization in defense of Black lives, evade or oppose calls to > defund the police, and fail to lift a finger on behalf of union organizing > drives at Amazon.5 There is a political logic to this since, as Kautsky > himself half conceded, his was a “passive radicalism” mistrustful of > socialist efforts to build working class insurgency. > > https://spectrejournal.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-revolution-today/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9246): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9246 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83595366/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
