I made the Grover Furr reference which was a joke. On Thursday, January 1, 2026, Charles via groups.io <charles1848= [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 (#39967): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39967 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
