Marv, So the honest answer is that revolutionary defeatism has contemporary evidence as a tendency, not as a formed strategy. It appears in ports, logistics chains, conscious refusal, antiwar union resolutions, and minority socialist debates. But it lacks the decisive ingredients: mass socialist parties, disciplined international coordination, soldiers’ councils, industrial leverage at scale, and a working class organized enough to make “the main enemy is at home” more than a slogan.
The best formulation is this: today revolutionary defeatism is a compass, not a vehicle. It points away from campism, national unity, lesser-evil imperialism, and “our state’s bombs are humanitarian actually” nonsense. But a compass does not move the army, stop the ships, or organize the factories. For that, you need institutions, cadres, unions willing to break the rules, and workers with enough collective power to impose costs. Currently, those exist only in fragments. -- Tony -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42252): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42252 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119987077/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
