A Marxist Historian

can you please tell me about the current state of the spartacist league. Structure, beliefs, the good the bad. Thanks

Did you check out my e-mail commentary on People's Histories? It's also a Theory thread on this board.

I emphasized that the DWG works by the 75% modified consensus, precisely because of the GA wreckers and right wingers who've been trying to sabotage it from the start. Many of the other working groups have similarly lowered their requirements for consensus. As long as the general assembly continues to hammer on their notion of "perfect" consensus, the rifts in the movement will continue to grow. There's already a recognition on the ground that certain elements can't be dealt with. This recognition and sentiment should be allowed to grow.

please remove my name that post

nowhere did I ever endorse something as idiotic as perfect consensus

"As for money under socialism, according to Marx you'd likely have to have labor vouchers for bookkeeping, to enforce the principle of from each according to his ability, to each according to his work, but that wouldn't look a lot like money as we know it. And you certainly wouldn't have a separate class of poor people, something you had much less of in the Soviet Union for that matter. Auto workers and coal miners were usually paid better than doctors and lawyers."

You're one of the few Trots who subscribes to labour vouchers and electronic equivalents as opposed to circulating money!

It would be entirely wrong to view the agricultural economy of the 10th century Middle East with the plantation economy of the Americas from the 16th century onwards. Nor can the forms of slavery and servitude, as Khad noted, be considered synonamous as you seem to believe.

You might be interested in this:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/all-power-...105/index.html

Thanks! Will do!

Great posts, keep it up!