At first glance, the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) appears to be an organization on the move. They produce a slick website featuring all of WordPress’s latest bells and whistles. They host conferences and classes around the world, usually advertised via professionally printed signs and banners. And at a time when Trotskyism seems to be at … More Cops and Class
(NOTE: Part I of this two-part post is available here.) The demonstration at the Treptow monument sent shockwaves through the imperialist bourgeoisie in West Germany and their supporters in the DDR. Far from a foregone conclusion, capitalist reunification was being challenged by throngs of East German workers who were being exposed to – and persuaded … More Anschluss, Part II: Defeat
The Federal Republic of Germany’s annexation of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) was a disaster for the latter’s working class. As West German bankers savored the rewards of their conquest, supposedly “obsolete” factories throughout the eastern portions of the country closed their doors. Only 7,000 East Germans were unemployed in January of 1990. Two years … More Anschluss, Part I: Opportunity
“Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.” – Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) “We shall have socialism when there … More Back to Basics
Both remnants of what was once the IBT have recently published, in their characteristically unbalanced way, notices or “balance sheets” regarding Jim Robertson’s recent death, complete with the usual array of smears about how the SL became an “obedience cult.” Since each group now consists of an even smaller handful of the previous IBT’s already … More Pyrite Politics
“In the previous epoch parliament performed to a certain degree a historically progressive task as a tool of developing capitalism. Under the present conditions of unbridled imperialism, however, parliament has been transformed into a tool for lies, deception, violence and enervating chatter.” — “Theses on the Communist Party and Parliamentarism,” Second Congress of the Communist … More Marx and Motivated Reasoning
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Thanks to everyone who encouraged me throughout the writing process and to Alex and Heather for doing that fascism reading group with me. Please read the endnotes; they’re important too. ? Last Wednesday afternoon, I spent several minutes on campus scraping a fascist sticker off a glass display case.…
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