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  1. Geiseric
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    "Political struggle" means a social and economic struggle, there's no seperation I believe. Occupy seems like it's turning into a club not unlike a 12 year old's treehouse, the "veterans" of it aren't of working class origin and the movement has made hardly any effort to address the need for workers revolutionary organisation. That is what I think is wrong about occupy. It isn't a genuine tool of class struggle, it's degenerating into petit bourgeois adventurism.
  2. Grenzer
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    Slave labor is primitive socialist accumulation?

    I took a brief look a little while ago at the Occupy call for a General strike and a strike of the unemployed.. seems to be a symbolic gesture. General strike on its own is never going to bring down capitalism or pave the way for lasting gains, but so long as that is understood, then I say go for it.
  3. Geiseric
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    My point about the General Strike is that it won't happen because Occupy hasn't built a working class base to organize this thing with. They need to do more things like the Oakland Port Shutdowns.
  4. Grenzer
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    I still don't think I quite understand what it is. What policies under Stalin differed from Khrushchev in a meaningful sense, aside from dismantling some of the more egregious forms of state repression and terror?

    Are there any other pseudo-socialist states that have been said to share the trait?
  5. Die Neue Zeit
    It's similar to capitalist primitive accumulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_accumulation
  6. Grenzer
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    I'll have to look into that.

    What do you mean by "primitive socialist accumulation"?
  7. Grenzer
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    Also, thanks for the info regarding Labor Aristocracy. I personally have discarded it in my personal analysis, since it seemed very dubious. I know some Stalinist theorists like Hoxha used it.
  8. Grenzer
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    The only ideology which I really feel compelled to go out of my way an attack is Maoism, which I think is more or less completely untenable as a cohesive system.
  9. Grenzer
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    It's his attitude I have a problem with, not so much his politics(though I vehemently disagree with them). I don't mind having constructive conversation with Marxist-Leninists when it's civil and backed up with good reasoning. Ismail is usually able to give a compelling enough argument to the point where we can 'agree to disagree' yet even then, he's usually still on very shaky ground from my view.(i.e. upholding Russia as socialist while defending its policies of nationalism on the grounds of its large peasant population).

    I think the problem with anti-revisionism is that it ignores the source; which in my opinion is their initial positions which are flawed to begin with. From their mistaken beginnings, it's not hard to see how they can cross the line from merely "critically supporting" things to actually admiring them. This exists to a lesser degree in Trotskyism, but to the ideologies left-of-Lenin, this doesn't seem to be nearly as much of an issue.
  10. Grenzer
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    No, I don't think I have.

    I get my views on unions from the KAPD; perhaps when there is a strong party-movement traditional unions can be co-opted, but at this early stage I feel that they are nebulous allies at best.
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