Lev
22nd November 2005, 00:37
I have my own socialist theory group in Preston, we meet up for a coffee on saturdays and discuss this and that book from the manifesto to animal farm, all kinds of stuff taking it in turn to do some kind of introdutcion to a book. We also invite speakers from around the country to come up and introduce stuff every now and then.
One book we did was Soc: Utopian and Scientific and its a fucking brilliant book.
I thought maybe you guys would like to look at the Mass Strike. I think its quite possibly Luxemburgs most important work and it deals clearly with how the mass strike poses questions of self-organisation concretely within the nature of the struggle and is quite important in shedding the myth that there is an impeneterable division between economic and political strikes etc.
Martin Smith has described the book in these terms, that Luxemburg discorvered in the mass strike as a bridge which translates the working class as it is today with large sections divided, lacking in confidence and only interested in economic issues to a class testing its own power through a revolution.
We also found looking at Lenin's pamphlet "Left-Wing Communism: An infantile disorder" its a usefull lesson in how socialists should operate within the current structures of society as well as outside of them then and today.
Are you definately looking at reform and revolution first people???? will find a copy online, hav read it before need to refresh
One book we did was Soc: Utopian and Scientific and its a fucking brilliant book.
I thought maybe you guys would like to look at the Mass Strike. I think its quite possibly Luxemburgs most important work and it deals clearly with how the mass strike poses questions of self-organisation concretely within the nature of the struggle and is quite important in shedding the myth that there is an impeneterable division between economic and political strikes etc.
Martin Smith has described the book in these terms, that Luxemburg discorvered in the mass strike as a bridge which translates the working class as it is today with large sections divided, lacking in confidence and only interested in economic issues to a class testing its own power through a revolution.
We also found looking at Lenin's pamphlet "Left-Wing Communism: An infantile disorder" its a usefull lesson in how socialists should operate within the current structures of society as well as outside of them then and today.
Are you definately looking at reform and revolution first people???? will find a copy online, hav read it before need to refresh