The armchair man: "it's delusional to believe you're engaged in 'revolutionary'
politics when that movement is at its lowest ebb."
Exactly wrong. If you wait until the movement surges, you have missed the boat.
The armchair man: "the effects of automation, globalization, atomization, and
the fr
" and it is an organizational form which, as the Bolsheviks proved, is
indispensable when a revolutionary crisis erupts and the question of power is
posed. "
As my modest knowledge is saying to me that only proves that is a form for an
illegal organization such as the Bolsheviks and that worked
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1. Yes, the Bolsheviks overthrew capitalism in Russia but it was not a
developed Western society but still a predominantly peasant one which is why I
did not refer to it in my comments.
2. Yes, there were revolutionary crises in the West, particularly in the
aftermath
1. Yes, the Bolsheviks overthrew capitalism in Russia but it was not a
developed Western society but still a predominantly peasant one which is why I
did not refer to it in my comments.
2. Yes, there were revolutionary crises in the West, particularly in the
aftermath of the Russian Revolution
Also John, I thought your position was pro voting for Biden. Did this
change?
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 4:42 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not just Biden; it's his party, the Democratic Party. As anybody who
> follows the US labor movement knows, a central reason why there i
Omelets with Eggshells: On the Failure of the Millennial Left - American
Affairs Journal
“In If We Burn, Vincent Bevins, a former correspondent in Brazil and then
in Southeast Asia for leading U.S. newspapers, weaves a narrative from
January 2010 to January 2020 that ties together mass protest in
Marv defends his reform view by shuffling aside all previous socialist
revolutions into "peasant societies of the global South." Well, Russia was a
peasant society, but it had a working-class revolution – without correlation to
trade union density.
Might we add revolutionary outbreaks that did
If enough people vote for third parties/independents, it forces the
Democrats to make concessions to progressives
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 4:42 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not just Biden; it's his party, the Democratic Party. As anybody who
> follows the US labor movement
Not quite sure what you understood him to be saying, David, but Charlie was
likely the only one on the list who did not grasp that my comments were solely
with reference to the experience of Marxists in the West, whose hopes for
social revolution never materialized for reasons I explained. I bel
Can 40 Year Teamsters Call Themselves Teamsters?
by Tom Leedham, Tim Sylvester, Bill Zimmerman
CounterPunch, Feb. 22
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/22/can-40-year-teamsters-call-themselves-teamsters/
. . .
Teamsterlink was the first to report on the reaction to President O’Brien’s
trip to
Charlie, Marv is correct. It is but one of a few (and actually the only one I
can think of) that is indictiave of the state of the working class for itself.
You have another that you'd perhaps like to enlighten with? At every level,
socialist revolutions i other countries occur during extreme de
Another high-toned, uninformed declaration: "But unless and until the steady
decline in trade union density is halted and conditions become such as to force
a resurgence of left-wing mass militancy and organization capable of
challenging for state power, we're necessarily limited to assisting t
You know - depending on what day or time or whatever other condition - Louis
was pretty capricious about this "banning". Even I was so ruled if I recall
right. It was not exactly a mark of an 'honoured' select Club.
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM Eva, IfNotNow
wrote:
> Join our national call for ceasefire at 8pm ET / 5pm PT TONIGHT
>
> Dennis,
>
>
>
> This has been an especially painful week during an already horrifying
> time. Witnessing the destruction in Rafah — aided and abetted by our own
> government
The blame game on the list illustrates that nothing the marginalized Marxist
left has tried for generations has worked - neither a frontal assault on the
leadership of the left-centre parties from the outside nor attempts to displace
the leadership of the unions and union-based parties from the
As to when the Democrats drank their version of the kool aid, I've
addressed the unchallenged facts of this every election. It didn't come out
of Carter but the defeat of George McGovern, something the DNC at the time
preferred rather than to lose power within the party. Leaders of American
politic
Zionism and the Annihilation of Gaza: The Problem in Palestine is Not
Political, but Ideological - Palestine Chronicle
Zionism and the Annihilation of Gaza: The Problem in Palestine is Not
Political, but Ideological
All of this – the language of genocide, the genocide itself and the thr
> On Feb 22, 2024, at 7:56 AM, sartes...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> It's an honor to be moderated from this collection of apologists and
> hypocrites and I want to acknowledge Louis Proyect who did me the great honor
> of banning me from this circle jerk.
S.Artesian, why do you keep rejoining
Good chance this won't make it past the censors, given recent actions or
inaction, but does anyone think a) Israel's attack on Gaza was NOT inevitable?
b) that such attack would not be barbaric in scope and intensity? c) that the
attack would have been carried out without US agreement? d) that
Mark is 100% right --- the Democrats' surrender (the title of my book by
the way shameless plug --- and it's free on line!) actually begins in
the Carter Administration --- I might date it from the failure to pass a
miniscule Labor Law "reform" and the cut in captial gains taxes in 1978 as
wel
First, in reply to Marv Gandall, who writes "It’s not simply or even
primarily a crisis of leadership, John, as many of us were miseducated to
believe." I think this is mixing up two slightly different things. that
"crisis of the leadership" classically refers to the crisis of the
revolutionary lea
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