Paulappaul

*is Jr a council communist?

no worries, jr a council communist?

http://chronicle.com/article/Capital...Future/126659/ I came across this very recent article by Paul Mattick Jr, thought you might be interested.

yeah, I don't usually get that far in debates though, I usually leave after I hear any pro-Iran, North Korea, China (occasionally) and most recently pro-Libyan sentiment.

Exactly. Right now I'm debating with a Leninist who believes that electoralism/reformism is a great, if not the best way to raise class consciousness...

That sounds really good, any group that increases class consciousness is doing their part.

Yeah, I've hardly spoken to anyone from the ICC, I can easily imagine most of them being very self-righteous though. Does the IWW have specific positions or is it just a broad working class movement? Either way they've been doing some great work over the years.

yeah I agree, I'm fairly sympathetic to the ICC though. In their reply they seem to define Left Communism as being inherently internationalist and consistently opposed to Stalinism.

Hey I think this http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/sanoshin.html debate/correspondence is probably relevant to most questions about left communism as a whole, he goes into the differences, similarities etc between Bordigism and Councilism. He's harsh on Council Communism, and even harsher on the ICC who responded with this http://en.internationalism.org/iccon...er_open_letter