The organisational question, as it was once called, focuses on the Party formation and its suitability in the revolutionary process. The success of the 1917 revolution of October is oftentimes credited to the Party formation, even though the Liberal revolution preceded it in February. Likewise the 1905 revolutionary did not have a Communist Party that was functioning and its absence may be cited as the reason for its eventual failure. Otherwise, both the 1905 and February 1917 revolutions may be credited with being the prelimary pre-revolutionary conditions necessary. However, there is a question of methodology involved here which places all in the context of the State. If the State is considered to be an objective, then the Party becomes the State in waiting and is built as such. But if the Party is truly revolutionary in permanence then it would have to overthrow the State itself and not the particular regime that governs it. This would seem to have been the fatal flaw of the 1917 CP revolutionary process which substituted for the State and did not abolish it, evne while the Soviets had emerged as an alternative to the bourgeois State. As such, the means by which the State is overcome cannot be with an apparatus which duplicates that state in itself. Putting the State in question by the revolution also puts the Party into question as such.
Some clarification about the Waffle, is that it was not expelled, it quit to form the Movement for an Independent Canada, which dropped socialism as an orientation and vapourized in the short term. The Socialist Causus continued that development although even Avi Lewish does not mention economic independence. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40170): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40170 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117257520/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
