Re: World Party of Socialist Revolution

["Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Louis Proyect
> That being said, I am afraid that Tom and the DSP'ers are not looking for
> an alternative but a recipe. In other words, they want a set of
> prescriptions about how to organize *themselves*. I am afraid that unless
> you lose the concept of yourself as a distinct current, you will never get
> anywhere. While Jon Anderson's bio of Che Guevara is deeply flawed, it is
> worth reading for the material on how the July 26th movement came
> together. Put succinctly, it was the organizational expression of a *mass
> movement*,

First of all: this entire discussion came about when people started offering
prescriptions on how the left should be organising themselves. Don't kid
yourself that any of your critiques of "Zinovievism" and so on has any
meaning or context other than organisations of a few hundred people or less.
These are the only organisations that exist.

More importantly: there can't be any "organizational expression of a *mass
 movement*" when *no such* mass movement exists. The "distinct currents"
exist as such precisely because of this lack. Having said that, distinct
currents will also exist within an "organizational expression of a *mass
movement*", precisely because such organizational expressions are
heterogeneous, that is, factionalised. Of course there is no good reason to
believe that the "distinct currents" of such a party and the "distinct
currents" of the present situation bear any particular relationship to each
other.

In any case, what Tom and the DSP'ers are looking for are answers to the
real question: what is to be done next?

Alan Bradley
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