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Little-Lenin
26th June 2009, 06:45
Thank you for accepting me in this Forum.:) I have a question:

What is "worker-communism"? I remember the May Day demo some years ago. There I met a lot of people from the "Iranian/Iraquian Worker Communist Party". This was in 1992, I believe. Since then, I have not heard so much from them.
If anyone who is within this party, or anyone else would answer, I would be grateful. (Sorry if my English is not very good).

In solidarity,

Little-Lenin.

Q
26th June 2009, 08:19
I don't think we have any Iraqi or Iranian comrades on the board. However, I think it was just a name that emphasised the fact it was a workers party following communist ideas (or what they propagate as such at least).

Welcome :)

Revy
27th June 2009, 04:45
A lot of detailed info here. (http://www.marxists.org/archive/hekmat-mansoor/1989/08/differences.htm)

Die Neue Zeit
27th June 2009, 04:52
I like the Hekmat article, comrade! :)

"Worker communism" is basically communism plus that all-important emphasis on the workers *only* in terms of organization - whether it's called proletarian separatism, class independence, etc. In one sense, Lenin did become a lesser renegade when he suggested letting peasants into the Bolshevik party in the works surrounding his testament.

Q, "workers party" has too many meanings these days. I prefer the term "workers-only party."

I too wrote an article:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/class-strugglist-labour-t97028/index.html