On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 01:18 PM, Les Schaffer wrote: > > anyway, more discussion of the book???
To be sure, Gabriel Rockhill is a multipolarista. Sebastian Budgeon, however, gets it all wrong trying to put Rockhill in the same category as Grover Furr. Furr is not a multipolarista, nor does he flack for "socialist China" as Rockhill does. One might surmise that Budgeon pairs the two because they are not Trotsky---s like Budgeon. But even that is wrong: Rockhill is a member of PSL, co-owner with WWP of the Marcyite subsector of Trotskyism. To the point about Western Marxism: Gabriel Rockhill only pretends to dislike “Western Marxism” as a label for the fake Marxists of the middle of the last century. You can tell that he actually accepts the “Western” implication when he defines, “Western Marxism is the specific form of Marxism that has arisen in the imperial core and been spread around the world through cultural imperialism.” Rockhill can only see U.S. and Western imperial brutality and plunder, not monopoly capitalist exploitation. • He praises BRICS as if it were anti-imperialist (ICSS presentation, Sept. 8, 2024). • He speaks of “China and Russia, which are opposing fascism” – two countries that suppress their working class with bare knuckles (ICSS presentation, Jan. 28, 2024). The CIA, through the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other fronts, waved the red flag to smother the red flag in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Rockhill does much the same thing: he rehashes exposés of those days in order to promote multipolarista illusions now. Marcuse was a big thing back when the ruling class peddled “flower power” to lure youth away from protesting the Vietnam war. But that time is past. Today, many youth are socialist. The choice is, will it be socialism on the path to communism, or “socialism” with neo-imperialist characteristics? Rockhill is with the latter. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39959): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39959 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117027542/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
