Re: World Party of Socialist Revolution

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>]

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From: "Shane Hopkinson" <s.hopkinson@xxxxxxxxxx>

> I
> see this in Marx who was loath to articulate a vision of the future
> but when he did it was from the worker's practice. The Paris
> Commune and the lessons we take from that were not there in
> theory and practiced by Communards but vice versa. Marx
> articulated their practice as a guide to how the new society would
> look.  Likewise no-one had Soviets in their Party Program in 1917
> - that is ti was not part of anyone's theory, despite the fact they had
> first emerged in 1905 no one saw their significance.  It was Lenin's
> genius in 1917 to "see" in this practice the germ of the future worker's
> power and to articilate it.  I think that theory follows practice.
>

Shane, thank you so much for opening this pandoras box. In reality, at least
here in North America if not all of the Imperialist countries, this is the kind
of thinking we need to develop. Yes, the form of revolutionary strucutres that
give content to our movements in the First World need to develop organically.

Today, the primary questions of some form of socialism along side a radical new
concept of democracy are the lowest common denominators of all the social
movements. How will equitable distribution, the utter smashing of the
imperialist state, and new forms of participation evolve here? We simply don't
know yet, but we should tinker with it in our minds.

The product of revolution, the revolutionary idea that galvanises the struggle
so that workers see it as their own, is the key component. Are we simply telling
people about Soviets? Are we listening? What are we hearing?

Just as a small sect is inevitably doomed to it's own internal contradictions
due to being divorced entirely from the workers or any other movement, so too is
an idea for the revolutionary structure which does not emanate from the people
whose lives the idea is supposed to transform.

Macdonald
Macdonald


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