Dear Comrades Further to Serg Zubatov's post I submit a page: How the WSM is different from other groups This substantiates again Serg's claim that Jan Pole is not even a Leninist. Fraternally Alexander http://www.worldsocialism.org/wsmdiff.htm -- Les "Editions Democrite" publient un mensuel en francais : > "Les dossiers du BIP" avec des traductions d'articles provenant de la > presse communiste(grecque, allemande, anglaise, turque, russe, espagnole, > portugaise...)sur des evenements qui interessent des lecteurs communistes. > Editions Democrite, 52, bld Roger Salengro, 93190 LIVRY-GARGAN, FRANCE > e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Title: World Socialist Movement - How the World Socialist Movement is different from other groups
How the WSM is different from other groups
The World Socialist Movement:
- claims that socialism will, and must, be a wageless, moneyless, worldwide society of common (not state) ownership and democratic control of the means of wealth production and distribution
- claims that socialism will be a sharp break with capitalism with no "transition period" or gradual implementation of socialism (although socialism will be a dynamic, changing society once it is established)
- claims that there can be no state in a socialist society
- claims that there can be no classes in a socialist society
- promotes only socialism, and as an immediate goal
- claims that only the vast majority, acting consciously in its own interests, for itself, by itself, can create socialism
- opposes any vanguardist approach, minority-led movements, and leadership, as inherently undemocratic (among other negative things)
- promotes a peaceful democratic revolution, achieved through force of numbers and understanding
- neither promotes, nor opposes, reforms to capitalism
- claims that there is one working class, worldwide
- lays out the fundamentals of what a socialist society must be, but does not presume to tell the future socialist society how to go about its business
- promotes an historical materialist approach - real understanding
- claims that religion is a social, not personal, matter and that religion is incompatible with socialist understanding
- seeks election to facilitate the elimination of capitalism by the vast majority of socialists, not to govern capitalism
- claims that Leninism is a distortion of Marxian analysis
- opposes all war and claims that socialism will inherently end war, including the "war" between classes.
- noted, in 1918, that the Bolshevik Revolution was not socialist. Had earlier, long noted that Russia was not ready for a socialist revolution
- was the first to recognize that the former USSR, China, Cuba and other so-called "socialist countries" were not socialist, but instead, state capitalist
- claims a very accurate, consistent analysis since 1904 when the first Companion Party was founded
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