Re: [Marxism] The DSP's fresh approach to applying democraticcentralism

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> 
  But
> perhaps the group that is wanted is the larger yet "weaker" group, the one
> less tightly organized, less demanding of its members, less homogeneous in
> its tactics and activities, even if it can't maintain all that functioning
> and all those institutions.
> 
> We have to ask, in terms of spreading socialist ideas and presenting an
> alternative to society as a whole, wouldn't the larger but less tightly
> wound group be better? Because such a group could draw together both the
> large party of "exes" out there and the other existing socialist
> organizations (assuming you could somehow talk them out of their Leninist
> Messiah complexes...).

Along these lines, consider the _FIRST_  Congress of the RSDLP -- where
nothing really happened, but a sort of really loose and ineffective
grouping got a name -- and out of that looseness came the Second 
Congress!

Party Building now that uses the "Leniist" method in effect tries to
have the Second Congress first, and by doing so prevents the emergence
of that first congress.

So yes -- Party Building organizations interfere with party building.

Carrol


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