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I'm curious about this as well. What economic program defined the US as a republic, and when did it cease being one?

Hey I saw a comment you posted on Q's blog here; http://demrep.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/52/
"Privatization runs contrary to the Res Publica principle."
I understand the basic idea here with "Res publica" actually being a term applied to all common property but I was wondering if you could explain it a little more in depth or provide a link.

Is this related to the same project of Ben Lewis' book "Republik" that you mentioned earlier? It looks like it was submitted last November. If it is, then it will be very interesting if it ever pulls through.

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org...nism-ben-lewis

Any works that turn back the clock to before 1917 and the ensuing council fetishism and abandonment of real revolutionary strategy are both much needed and welcome.

I'll post something in there soon. What's this Brezhnev-Andropov model? I have official Soviet theoretical literature from the 1970's, and they seemed to rather explicitly embrace a Luxemburgist political approach, as well as echoing the revisionist idea that Lenin and Luxemburg were entirely in agreement as to political strategy. The literature in question was written by Soviet professors.

Thanks! I've had a vested interest in alternative methods of organisation ever since an argument between me and a member of my local group. This particular one (is it left-centralism? I don't know the correct name) has caught my eye, and I'm really wanting to learn more.

Jeezus.. I wonder why the hell Macnair would start embracing trade unions. That seems to go against his earlier logic, but I don't think he had properly attacked unions for their apoliticism in the past.

That does seem to be how they imagine it. Well they're not too clear on the point. They're not clear on what the party's role should be during a revolutionary situation, other than it should not seek state power itself(well, that's the ICC; the ICT is even more vague). In the absence of clarity, one can only assume they are relying on spontaneous mass action at the national scale.

What were the pros of the ICP's method of organization? From what I can tell they tried to be a transnational political entity that also organized things on a more local level. In practice though, the Italians tended to dominate it. Most Left Communists seem to be for a unitary global party, but still refer to themselves as an "Internationalists". Is this technically an accurate description?