> A revolutionary organization with a clear program has yet to come
> into being in my corner of the planet. What of yours? In the
> absence of a revolutionary party active within a mass movement, into
> what should one assimilate? We have to build it, first of all.
>
> Now, why don't you lay out your analysis of the present conjuncture,
> now that you are here? That should be a good point of departure.
>
Ah, I see you are indeed working on the uroborus principle of circularity. You can't
build a party without a theory, and you can't have a theory without first having a
party seems to be your position. IMO what you have to do is (a) make some kind of
analysis of the global conjuncture; (b) persuade other people of it and (c) organise
around it.
If you want to know where I think (a) is at, check out the crashlist website and
archive. There is a good resume of where (a) is, written by Stan Goff.
You have already long ago rejected my version of (a). You still think in terms of
socialist construction, social meliorism, bettering the human condition,
emancipation, more dignity for labour, worldwide social justice etc. These ideas are
completely reactionary in the circumstances, they are a brake on the *revolutionary*
movement because they do not address the nature of the historical impasse which
capitaism has now draghged humankind into; your ideas are a century out of date and
belong with the progressivism of 'storming the heavens' bolshevism and 19th century
social optimism generally. What we *ought* to do is construct people with the bitter
truth about the fate of biodiversity which exterminist capital has brought us all
to.
One of the latest and most pitiful incarnations of this idea, which attempts the
impossible squaring of eco-doom with social progress circles (impossible even for
an uroborus) is the latest effort by Foster to ground Marxism in epicurus. In
england you can buy at harrod's an upmarket raspberry jam called Epicurus. I would
rather spend my money that way, on the whole.
Mark
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