kasama-rl
9th February 2008, 18:52
The Kasama (http://mikeely.wordpress.com)site has recently posted the pdf of a major historical analysis of early communist theory and practice.
It is called
Slipping Into Darkness: “Left” Economism, the CPUSA and the Trade Union Unity League (1929-1935) (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/cpusa-in-30s-slipping-into-darkness/)
This analysis by Mike Ely examines the period considered by some the “good years” (i.e. the revolutionary period) of the Communist Party of the U.S. The piece was originally written in 1980 right after he left the coalfields. It was based on both detailed research into this history and the RCP's own experience of trying to develop revolutionary organization among workers using a left-economist approach.
The article was originally published in Revolution, which was then the theoretical journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA.
This is offered online because it think it raises important questions about how does revolutionary consciousness develop among the oppressed and because it speaks to issues around trade union organizing that have re-emerged among a new generation of revolutionaries.
I look forward to correspondence and discussion with any of you who would like to explore these historical and political questions with me.
It is called
Slipping Into Darkness: “Left” Economism, the CPUSA and the Trade Union Unity League (1929-1935) (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/cpusa-in-30s-slipping-into-darkness/)
This analysis by Mike Ely examines the period considered by some the “good years” (i.e. the revolutionary period) of the Communist Party of the U.S. The piece was originally written in 1980 right after he left the coalfields. It was based on both detailed research into this history and the RCP's own experience of trying to develop revolutionary organization among workers using a left-economist approach.
The article was originally published in Revolution, which was then the theoretical journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA.
This is offered online because it think it raises important questions about how does revolutionary consciousness develop among the oppressed and because it speaks to issues around trade union organizing that have re-emerged among a new generation of revolutionaries.
I look forward to correspondence and discussion with any of you who would like to explore these historical and political questions with me.