[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: M-TH: Communist Programme

2000-07-12 Thread James Paris
I tend to think comrade George is trying to re-invent the wheel. I mean, for all his bluster about the "Trotskyists", his concept of the Communist Programme is not too different from the Comintern's conception of concrete demands (adopted at the Third World Congress, 1921), which was the basis fo

M-TH: Communist Programme

2000-07-10 Thread George Pennefather
The relationship between the minimum and the maximum programmes is an important one. Many trotskyists are of the view that the two programmes are bridged by the transitional programme. Their view is the minimum and maximum demands are bridged by transitional demands. The system of transitional de