Re: Reply to: Re: Reply to: Re: Labour,SLP -

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 May 1996, Adam Rose wrote:

>
> The task facing Revolutionaries today is to build relatively small groups of
> socialists. Such groups are bound together by a shared set of politics.
> They have, not only to act together, but attract people to a view of the world
> as it as  and how to change it.
>

Louis: This is your notion of the task. Mine is more similar to Lenin's
who sought to build a socialist party simply on the basis of adherence to
Marxism. The implicit idea in your methodology is that your own group
has a superior understanding of history and the tasks facing
revolutionaries today. Your methodology is identical to the American
SWP's and the Morenoists. If Lenin used this methodology, there would have
been no revolution in October 1917.

I think it makes sense to focus on the questions of the class nature of
Cuba, etc., but at some point it might make sense to revisit the whole
question of Bolshevik "methodology" down the road.



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