It's been awhile since you were here. How are things?
I don't agree with them on "communist economy matters" much.
Yes, it seems that the WSM, despite its basically correct position on communist economy matters, is hopelessly reformist and parliamentarist in the field of practical policies.
What can I say, comrade? That's World Socialist Movement parliamentary cretinism in action (re. the PRG).
Sure, I will try to find Lidtke's in Questia databse.
You just keep posting all that Questia stuff, comrade! Hey, maybe you can actually post direct pages, paragraphs, etc. from Vernon Lidtke's Alternative Culture!
"So, despite their official Stalinism, there is something interesting to them - unlike the KKE's stale orthodoxy." Sometimes myths are too strong to break in the short term. Combining "official Stalinism" (like noting Stalin's logistical knack in the Great Patriotic War, denouncing Khrushchev's hare-brained sovnarkhozy and industrial-agricultural party bifurcation schemes, etc.) with more revolutionary praxis and educative sessions denouncing "Marxism-Leninism" (such as sovkhozization vs. Stalin's kolkhozization mistake, or Popular Front idiocy) might be the way to go in today's Russia. That's why I referred to, for example, upholding Stalin's group's expulsion of Trotsky from the party when the latter and his supporters organized their anti-"unity-in-action" stunt. It's exactly like Lassalle and German Social Democracy from the tail end of the Anti-Socialist Laws until about a decade or so later.
What I was referring to in my jab at Labourism: http://cpgb.podbean.com/2011/06/07/blue-labour/
Currently I am too preoccupied with my work issues. Maybe in two or three days I will be able to respond.
Not that one. The Fully Socialized Labour Market one, though the Minsky-Polanyi material is related too.
