Brosa Luxemburg

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...ce/parties.htm

How can a worker's party pose the question of conquering political power if it not a mass party and is not composed of the biggest part of the working class? The alternative to "mass-partyism" is either the anarchist rejection of politics(which essentially deprives the proletariat of 2 of it's 3 main areas of struggle against the propertied classes - the political and the theoretical, all that remains is the economic) or the Stalinist and Trotskyist formation of stupid fucking small bureaucratic sects.

What do you mean by "why the insistence on mass parties"? That's Marxism 101 that dates back to the Manifesto. The 3 immediate aims of Communists from the Manifesto: "formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat. "

And to understand what Marx means by the formation of the proletariat into a class, you have to understand that to Marx and Marxists, the proletariat only acts as a class when it constitutes itself into a political party. From a resolution drafted by Marx for the First International in 1872:
"Considering, that against this collective power of the propertied classes the working class cannot act, as a class, except by constituting itself into a political party, distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed by the propertied classes."

Jux chillin. There are always some of those. For the most part they just don't know a whole lot yet, and then get better. What I really mind is the "social-prolecrat" sort.

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