Opinions on the MRT

[Jimmie Higgins]

What do people think about the Marxist Revolutionary Tendancy (MRT) group active in North America? I think they are related to the SMLR (Struggle for a Marxist League of Revolutionaries) in the UK, but it's unclear to me.

What do you think about their leader Max Marxmus (a pseudonym no doubt) and his theory of "The 3-Prong Struggle"? Are they a cult? I hear that they make new recruits do trust-falls... creepy.

[Art Vandelay]

I can't find anything about them on google.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I can't find anything about them on google.
Yeah, that's another odd thing I heard about them. They have this theory of capitalist "technological decadance" - apparently they insist it's not some kind of anti-technological luddite position, but I don't quite understand their argument about it. They use cell phones and all other technology for the most part. It's something about how the internet represents the encolosure of what they call the "abstract commons" and they have some line about waiting for the internet to develop and that if revolutionaries use it now they are engaging in some kind of petty-bourgoise fantasy. Like I said, I don't really understand the position - and I only know it second-hand, so I might be misrepresenting it.

But I guess that would be why they don't have members participating on forums like this. Does anyone know if anyone on this site is a former member?

[Jimmie Higgins]

I guess there's a newsletter they produce that they will fax to you. I'd check it out, but I don't have a fax machine.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

They might want to establish an internet presence before someone else does it for them...

[Os Cangaceiros]

I've never heard of them, which is really saying something as I've heard of extremely obscure US communist orgs, like the CP-USA (Provisional) and the Ray O. Light group, etc


They might want to establish an internet presence before someone else does it for them...

But that would be falling right into the petty bourgeois trap! :ohmy:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

And nobody writes about them on the internet?

[Jimmie Higgins]

And nobody writes about them on the internet?Yeah, that's why I was wondering if anyone had any information about them.

I think they may be regional or something. You'd think more people would talk about them, because from what I hear they tend to be really sectarian. My friend described them as "LaRouche-Lite" although they haven't explicitly divorced themselves from leftism - at least in some of their rhetoric. One of their campaigns was to try and revive Eugene Debs "Red Special" train-tours but on subways. I guess they try and mob a subway car and do some kind of soapbox propaganda in each of the train cars. They basically just keep speaking until they are kicked off the train and then they go around to other left groups and demand that they help funraise to pay the fines in the name of "solidarity".