AUT: Marxism & councilism

[neil <74742.1651@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Reply to   the other Neil, Neil F of R. & B. Notes (Can) jouranl;

I don't think the term 'councilist' is intrinsically  a put-down, for
example,
the very pro -councilist P. Rachleff in his well researched  book ,
' Marxism and Council communism'  uses the terms 'councilist' and
 'council communist' interchangably  many dozens of times.

Small coummunist groups can carry out effective  prop-agit work  even when
struggles are in a demoralizing  ebb, etc, when sporadic mass actions do
take place. . This is
 not 'Watchtower' type religious stuff either of  just promoting  just a "
true" "Platform ' ,
In fact this Magic Platform method  was one of the things we critcized the
ICC, Bordigism , and to a
lesser degree,  the IBRP  and others for .

But  intervention  does take some research and study -- like recently here
in LA when one of
our flyers exposed the $$$$ the liberals and conservatives got  from the
Energy companies to 'deregulate' Energy  prices,  speeding up the corporate
price fixings &
 looting of the Calif, state .budget surplus to the point where Calif. has
a $23
 Billions deficit  now with ensuing  massive cuts in  health services
/schools and big layoffs
are going  on.
For a change, we could hear  a number of  protestors  at a big rally
here discussing this from our leaflet  directly recently . May not count
fro much , but its better than
doing nothing and just waiting for the apocalyptic big crash to come!

Besides its gives to microcosmic forms of collective pol. work and  some
masses
remember it was 'those reds' , the 'ultra lefts' ,  who took time to  put
this stuff out.
Neil F. does admit  that this kind of work can have a bit of positive
effect ..

Neil F however states " I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, but I
think we can agree
there isn't a communist ideology".............
NO! There really is, and can come in varied types too, just as does
liberal, fascist,   conservative,
monarchist, republican, religious,  even syndicalist,  unionist,  and dare
i say anarchist ideology!!
differing classes , castes, etc, all evolve forms of ideology . Ideology
can
be progresssive or reactionary  as far as differnet/opposing  class
interests are concerned.

But no differing here that in the end , the masses themselves have to be
able to sort all this
out as their own struggles progress. .

I would agree with Neil F. though that Cajo Brendels material  is very much
worth
looking at . He did a great pamphelt for exLondon Solidarity  a few
decades ago
on the  history of state-cap  and bourgeois nature of Maoism from its
earliest days...

Neil C.











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