Re: [Marxism] Mandel's writings

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

A couple additions to what Jurriaan wrote. First, Late Capitalism is a great 
example of what Jurriaan refers to vis-a-vis Marxist Economic Theory, i.e. an 
effort to "actually develop Marx's theory, using the new findings of the modern 
sciences, like Marx himself did." In the case of Late Capitalism, this meant, 
among other things, trying to integrate the various causes of crisis; to take a 
new look at technological development and its limits; and to reassess competing 
theories of imperialism.

His "Leninist Theory of Organization" had a big impact on me. It was the first 
thing I'd read that made clear there was more to organizing than the 
party/united front dichotomy. Specifically this meant in the '70s that the 
SWP/mass antiwar movement pair, while important (and we could do much, much 
worse today, in fact we are!), did not grapple with other possible intermediate 
forms of organization (which could, for example, take up tasks of solidarity 
with liberation movements).

Whether the pro-Mandel European sections did anything worthwhile with this 
theory is another question....



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