[Marxism] Workerism

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Haines Brown wrote:
> Walter L. was upset with the workerism of the SWP. Given my comments
> above, I fail to understand his point. I wonder if he would specify in
> what sense the SWP was workerist. More broadly, how is the left
> generally workerist in a negative sense of the word? 

It is not a general problem. It is strictly limited to groups that have 
a mechanical understanding of Bolshevism. The idea of intellectuals 
"colonizing" industry is an example. So is labeling social movements 
like gay rights as "petty bourgeois". The best critique of "workerism" 
that I have ever seen was Peter Camejo's "Against Sectarianism", 
although I am not sure he even uses the term.

http://www.marxmail.org/camejo.html



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