Re: [Marxism] Earl Browder

["rrubinelli" <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand the rationale, but the result was not at all the protection
of socialism. Rather it was the destruction of the opportunity for
proletarian revolution in Europe and the Americas for a couple of
decades.

Despite my lack of orthodoxy when it comes to Leninism or Trotskyism, I
think it is essential to grasp, in analysis, program, tactics, and
strategy that both Lenin and Trotsky maintained that their survival, and
the survival of the Bolshevik rule, was secondary to the prospects for
success of international revolution.

The notion that defense or protection of the "socialism" of the Soviet
state through class-collaboration is identical with or superior to the
prospects for international revolution predates WW2 and in fact is one
of the contributing factors to the "inevitability" of that conflict.

The moderator puts it right when he says that the best defense of the
USSR resided in increased class struggle.

No strikes in Detroit a reasonable position in WW2?   But how about one
day after?  How do you ever recuperate your validity with the workers
when you go from no strikes to OK strikes based on the temporary
accommodations between states?  The disorienation and disorganization of
the working class introduced by a "no strike"  social patriotism merely
sets the stage for expulsion of left wing elements from the workers
movement as a whole during and after the accommodation.

How about after the Battle of Kursk, when it was quite clear that the
Red Army would defeat the Nazis?  Shouldn't it, strikes, been OK then?

And if African-Americans refused to serve in the armed forces?  If
Native Americans refused to serve?  Would arrest and imprisonment be a
reasonable position also?

When the Vietnamese workers movement was told to abandon its struggle
against France in order to reaffirm the PF strategy of the USSR, and
reassure the PF government of France, was that reasonable?

On the contrary, all those reasonable positions amount to abandonment of
class struggle, decapitation of the workers' leadership, and the
inevitability of increased attacks on every single gain workers have
made, especially the "deformed" gains of its first worker's state.

rr


----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ^^^
> CB: At the time of the party position, it wasn't clear that the Red
Army
> would defeat the Nazis somewhat on the Red Army's own, so it might
have been
> necessary to have places like the "Arsenal of Democracy" going full
blast to
> defeat the Nazis. Thus, no strikes during the war in Detroit , etc.,
was a
> reasonable position.
>
>
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