Tony, > On Aug 15, 2026, at 22:10, Anthony Teso via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://anthonyteso.substack.com/p/the-caucuses-and-their-host?r=2sbdk&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Thanks for posting this. One of the more interesting caucuses of the bunch is Reform & Revolution. It's also one of your shortest critiques. Regarding the R&R critique, I'd like to explore your use of "third campism" such as from this paragraph: "I will answer the rejection of third campism directly rather than take offense at it. R&R’s stated ground is that both campism and third campism flatten contradictions within the imperialist world system. The charge misidentifies the position. Third camp politics is not the claim that all states are equivalent; it is the claim that the agent of anti-imperialist politics is the working class of each country and not any state and that support for a state against another state substitutes an interstate calculus for class self-activity." Why repurpose "third camp" in this way, especially in an increasingly multi-polar imperialist world? Why not let "campism" become a pejorative term rather than something that needs adaptation? The original Shachtman, et. al. characterization described two different systems with the third being working-class internationalism. Why not just call it "working-class internationalism" and be done with it. thanks, Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43050): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43050 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120772684/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
