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Thunder on the Left, Lightening on the Right, Alex Callinicos’s Slow Impatience. Alex Callinicos begins and ends his latest assessment of the “present situation” by resigning himself to the weaknesses of the “radical left”(1). A paradox, given, apparently, the SWP leader asserts, that capital is also weak.A feeble economic recovery after the Bank crisis of 2008 is not met by any renewed left. Indeed there is a “weakness of credible anti-capitalist alternatives.” Not only in organised parties, he modestly cites his own small group the SWP’s ‘troubles’, to which this article is partly addressed. The King’s College academic stops short of advocating the “communist pessimism” of Pierre de Naville or Walter Benjamin,. But he finishes by citing Daniel Bensaïd's reflections on the need for “a slow impatience”—in other words, “an active waiting, an urgent patience, an endurance and a perseverance that are the opposite of a passive waiting for a miracle”. This implies, an ” effort to intervene in and shape the present …” More here: http://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/thunder-on-the-left-lightening-on-the-right-alex-callinicoss-slow-impatience/ Andrew Coates ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
