Well, the SACP has not rejected, and doesn't reject, Marxist classics. Marxist classics were but not an article of faith. They are a product of a concrete analysis of concrete conditions. It is Marx himself who said that change is constant. We mustn't use classics to justify a refusal to analyse the state of change since Marx, and to update Marxism accordingly where it's necessary. Marxism cannot be complete for so long as there is change, because as a study its focus is change, which it at the same time its ultimate goal especially fundamental revolutionary change. Ours is to develop it further in accordance with changing conditions. By doing so we will be taking our cue from Marx himself, Engels and Leanin. For example Marx and Engels developed a changed idea about the state after the failure of the Paris commune. That wasn't the last failure. There was the collapse of the Soviet Union. By the way this year will mark the centenary of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution. We need to become clear what went wrong and make sure we don't repeat it.
In addition, tendencies such as corporate capture of the victories of the working class and even strategic levers of the elements of the state that were won for example after 1994 in South Africa must not be ignored. A failure to recognise the changing nature of class struggle and the conditions in which it takes place can only lead to absurdities, to treating Marxism as a dogma, which is not. Classics are important. But we cannot end our theoretical struggle with the beginning. On 1 Jan 2017 09:34, "VC" <[email protected]> wrote: [image: MortarBoardCULong.jpg] <http://studycircle.wikispaces.com/Communist+University> *CUVSS Day Thirty-Six, Week Eight**** *The Classics, One* *The Marxist Classics cannot be rejected by the SACP*, unless it wants to stop being a communist party! We touch 1845 works that Lenin didn’t know – *Theses on Feuerbach* and *The German Ideology* – and the ones of 1847-8 that Lenin called *“first works of mature Marxism”* – *The Poverty of Philosophy* and the *Communist Manifesto.* Classics are so-far-unsurpassed works, essential for human development. We go through Marx’s *French Trilogy,* through his foundation of *International* organisation, to the threshold of publication of his masterpiece, *Capital.* *Attached file**:* *CUVSS Day 36, The Classics, Book 1 of 3* *Portable link**:* For *PDF* click *http://preview.tinyurl.com/gos6dc4 <http://preview.tinyurl.com/gos6dc4>*, then click *“Proceed to this site”.* **CUVSS = Communist University Virtual Summer School* __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14696 (20161231) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/ group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000001d26401%24b355b850%241a0128f0%24%40com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000001d26401%24b355b850%241a0128f0%24%40com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/CAE_V024pQsRzEi8oqvyUOkyw%3DxsxoWL-8N6%3DDzyHHVfOeTeCkw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
