Re: [Marxism] Class, Party, and Organization

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

"I think there is an implicit contradiction between these two statements,"
says Ben Courtice, about my affirmation on the one hand that the masses will
throw up their own vehicles and forms and that Lenin carefully laid out how
the RSDLP might function under conditions of tsarist repression.

That is not so. Lenin did not sit down to write an organization plan for a
Russian Communist Party in 1895. He wrote What Is to be Done about how to
organize an RSDLP that was already in existence in the form of scattered
local groups. That's got nothing to do with creating a party structure today
in places like the U.S. in a totally voluntaristic way.

Joaquín


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