tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post9152369431253360035..comments2023-03-18T04:07:57.626-04:00Comments on Revolutionary Marxist: Break With The Democrats! For A Workers Party!Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10200754644557621949noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-50010264189215496452007-03-22T11:12:00.000-04:002007-03-22T11:12:00.000-04:00your site was given to me by renegade eye. My site...your site was given to me by renegade eye. My site is markinbookreview.blogspot.com/ I have looked over a couple of your articles and will comment in the future, comradely markinamerican left historyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06882945935118479402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-79401075427917519552007-01-27T17:18:00.000-05:002007-01-27T17:18:00.000-05:00I posted about Orwell in the Spanish Civil War.I posted about Orwell in the Spanish Civil War.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-83569372447597155412007-01-12T19:51:00.000-05:002007-01-12T19:51:00.000-05:00I've been drifting toward the "In Defense of Marxi...I've been drifting toward the "In Defense of Marxism" (WIL) group. The national office is near my house.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-55935507285961997762006-12-25T12:50:00.000-05:002006-12-25T12:50:00.000-05:00Seasons GreetingsSeasons GreetingsFrank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-29569497195630600692006-12-18T22:29:00.000-05:002006-12-18T22:29:00.000-05:00Here when we are talking about Stalinist CP we mea...Here when we are talking about Stalinist CP we mean during the 1930's the time most likely a labor party was to come into being. <br /><br />Sorry guys, this is not Monty Python and the Life of Brian, Spliters! We're the People's Front of Judea! The Popular Front, ideed, where is he... he's over there...spliter!<br /><br />Real groups have real disagreements. The Spartacists were unjustly kicked out of the degenerating SWP which has abandoned almost every Marxist position there is. Other groups have formed and reformed over policies, alliances, personalities etc. Yes there is a lot of sectarianism, a lot, but it is important to have factional battles to see what positon will fly and what works. It would be nice to have more people involved in even more parties... more ideas more people thinking. But to want unity before anybody agrees on all the positions is premature. <br /><br />Anyway the main enemy is the Democratic Party, not the Trotskyists, Maoists, Anarchists or Stalinists but Democrats.<br /><br />How's that?<br />Thanks Ren and Left!Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10200754644557621949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-23003568130239941222006-12-18T16:09:00.000-05:002006-12-18T16:09:00.000-05:00I agree too many Trotskyists groups, that belong u...I agree too many Trotskyists groups, that belong under a single umbrella.<br /><br />What is this Stalinism doesn't exist?Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-68468042045410931652006-12-17T19:52:00.000-05:002006-12-17T19:52:00.000-05:00Stalinist CP? eh? Stalinism doesn't exsist and the...Stalinist CP? eh? Stalinism doesn't exsist and the reason we don't have a labor party is because there are 50 trot parties which split from each other for things as idiotic as namesake. <br /><br />great blog nicholas, looking forward to more entries.LeftyHenryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05870433011584211043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-47977584214467489442006-12-17T16:50:00.000-05:002006-12-17T16:50:00.000-05:00Yes and other reasons as well. The tradition of "c...Yes and other reasons as well. The tradition of "clean trade unionism" meaning with no politics-meaning giving the political field to the bourgeoisie or close collaboration with the bosses from the AFL and Gompers. Many of the CIO leaders were not very commited to a labor party though they would give lip service to it. In fact John L. Lewis, CIO leader, was a Republican. <br /><br />The CIO leaders in the 30's were interested in using the workers voting strength to pressure Rooseveldt. In 1936, Lewis, Dubinsky and Hillman came up with Labor's Non-Partizan League as a meand to channel votes from socialists and communists back into the Democratic Party. Same is true for the establishment of the American Labor Party.<br /><br />This is great, (see Art Preis, Labor's Giant Step, p. 73-78) you have AFL leaders, CIO leaders, Fusionist Republicans, La Guardia, George Meany, right wing Socialists, New Deal Democrats and the Stalinst CP all together in an "unholy alliance and played a decisive part in this 'People Front' (refering to the CP) for the betrayal of labor's independent political action program (Preis, p. 77)."Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10200754644557621949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038069.post-37486084417571185902006-12-16T18:38:00.000-05:002006-12-16T18:38:00.000-05:00One of the reasons we don't have a labor party is ...One of the reasons we don't have a labor party is going back to WWII, the Stalinist CP, joined the Roosevelt coalition.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.com