Die Neue Zeit
6th December 2015, 07:22
"Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus."
I'd like to start off by quoting the Latin phrase for "Outside the Church there is no salvation." This was used by in a more secular but political sense by the likes of Gavin Mendel-Gleason and James O'Brien, when referring to their "Emancipation through Organisation" motto (http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11769).
I'd like to also apologize politically for not being more involved in the debates caused by these two authors. Otherwise, I would have been more aware of the Irish Marxism series of blogs critiquing the authors (http://www.revleft.com/vb/debate-socialist-strategy-t194772/index.html). I would also have been aware of those blogs being a much longer but more well-toned criticism than the IS Network article (http://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/ideas-and-arguments/analysis/323-mark-h) which I commented upon. Ultimately, I would have reconfirmed revolutionary centrism, in between Mendel-Gleason/O'Brien and the Irish Marxism author, just as I confirmed it in between Mendel-Gleason/O'Brien and Simon Hardy (the IS Network article's author).
It's pretty clear that the likes of the Irish Marxism author and Simon Hardy share the same problem as Mendel-Gleason and O'Brien: they do not have any strategy of revolutionary attrition.
While I haven't written any formal commentary on a strategy of revolutionary attrition, notable components can be found in these previous discussions:
Mass class institutions: "love" bureaucracy-as-process as much as Winston came to love Big Brother (http://www.revleft.com/vb/strategy-attrition-t186214/index.html?p=2707491#post2707491)
The fourth type of revolution, incorporating elements from insurrection, socialization, and communization (http://www.revleft.com/vb/obrien-three-types-t179447/index.html?p=2592801#post2592801) (more about the appropriate business model for building mass class institutions)
George Monbiot: The model for a leftwing resurgence? Evangelical Christianity (http://www.revleft.com/vb/george-monbiot-model-t194512/index.html) (secular evangelism, not the secular catholicism of Mendel-Gleason/O'Brien (http://www.revleft.com/vb/strategy-attrition-t186214/index.html?p=2766539&highlight=evangelism#post2766539), plus regular communal meals and the self-funding model of collecting the secular equivalent of "tithes" during each local branch meeting, on top of the standard dues)
Greece: Lessons for optimal electoral opposition? (http://www.revleft.com/vb/greece-lessons-optimal-t188741/index.html) (a lot of them, and the final point is similar to an anti-parliamentarism critique of the Irish Marxism author)
I'd like to start off by quoting the Latin phrase for "Outside the Church there is no salvation." This was used by in a more secular but political sense by the likes of Gavin Mendel-Gleason and James O'Brien, when referring to their "Emancipation through Organisation" motto (http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11769).
I'd like to also apologize politically for not being more involved in the debates caused by these two authors. Otherwise, I would have been more aware of the Irish Marxism series of blogs critiquing the authors (http://www.revleft.com/vb/debate-socialist-strategy-t194772/index.html). I would also have been aware of those blogs being a much longer but more well-toned criticism than the IS Network article (http://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/ideas-and-arguments/analysis/323-mark-h) which I commented upon. Ultimately, I would have reconfirmed revolutionary centrism, in between Mendel-Gleason/O'Brien and the Irish Marxism author, just as I confirmed it in between Mendel-Gleason/O'Brien and Simon Hardy (the IS Network article's author).
It's pretty clear that the likes of the Irish Marxism author and Simon Hardy share the same problem as Mendel-Gleason and O'Brien: they do not have any strategy of revolutionary attrition.
While I haven't written any formal commentary on a strategy of revolutionary attrition, notable components can be found in these previous discussions:
Mass class institutions: "love" bureaucracy-as-process as much as Winston came to love Big Brother (http://www.revleft.com/vb/strategy-attrition-t186214/index.html?p=2707491#post2707491)
The fourth type of revolution, incorporating elements from insurrection, socialization, and communization (http://www.revleft.com/vb/obrien-three-types-t179447/index.html?p=2592801#post2592801) (more about the appropriate business model for building mass class institutions)
George Monbiot: The model for a leftwing resurgence? Evangelical Christianity (http://www.revleft.com/vb/george-monbiot-model-t194512/index.html) (secular evangelism, not the secular catholicism of Mendel-Gleason/O'Brien (http://www.revleft.com/vb/strategy-attrition-t186214/index.html?p=2766539&highlight=evangelism#post2766539), plus regular communal meals and the self-funding model of collecting the secular equivalent of "tithes" during each local branch meeting, on top of the standard dues)
Greece: Lessons for optimal electoral opposition? (http://www.revleft.com/vb/greece-lessons-optimal-t188741/index.html) (a lot of them, and the final point is similar to an anti-parliamentarism critique of the Irish Marxism author)