[Marxism] Nearing v. Foster

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

alanb quotes Lenin on the need to "link up, maintain the closest contact, and?
  if you wish?merge, in certain measure, with the broadest masses of the
  working people?primarily with the proletariat, but also with the non-
  proletarian masses of working people."

  This is as good an introduction as any to a debate I was going to refer to 
today. Just
  posted at the MIA thanks to the Early American Marxism archive is a debate 
between
  Scott Nearing and William Z. Foster on the strategy of the TUEL and CP and 
whether it was based on an accurate assessment of the mood of the masses and 
what the
  role of the party and its mass organizations should be (or whether it should 
even have
  them).

  No-one will be surprised to hear my sympathies are with Foster in this 
debate, which
  has lessons for our time, however different this decade is from the 1920's.

  http://marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1924/01/0128-nearing-to
foster.pdf
http://marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1924/05/0517-foster-tonearin
g.pdf




                
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