Re: [Marxism] Class, Party, and Organization

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Joaquin Bustelo wrote:

<And I will be quite explicit. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE of the line and  
approach
of the Bolsheviks from 1912 on, first within Russia, and then
internationally of SPLITTING the workers movement between its  
reformist and
revolutionary wings. The REASON we can't apply Lenin's policy is that we
don't HAVE a workers movement.

This is WHY it is necessary to revert to the tactical approach that  
the most
conscious Marxists had two or three decades earlier of promoting the
emergence of real workers party, even with very limited and inadequate
programs, based on the MATERIALIST understanding that "every step of  
real
movement is worth ten paper programmes." (That's from Marx's cover  
letter to
Bracke that accompanied the Critique of the Gotha Programme, quoted from
memory, but I'm pretty sure it is accurate).

There is nothing wrong with returning to the approach of the  
1860s'-1880's
because the political tasks today are similar. >

Do you have any other sources to provide a historical context for  
this 1860-1880 tactical approach?

Greg McDonald

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