Holden Caulfield

Hell, I know that feeling. Been in the library since 9 this morning, gonna go back and do at least two hours after a few fags and a cup of tea.

"Russia's geopolitical interests with the near abroad and 'new' Europe, and how it affects the state's naion-building and national identity"? Balls to it.

Yes, and I stand by it.

I hope you take the real life struggle as seriously as you take RevLeft!

Thanks Holden. Though forgive me if i'm not going to go back into the whole 'BCBM vs Holden vs Ulster Socialist vs Psycho' thing again

Done

The development of the labour aristocracy from the late 19th century onwards was noted clearly by Marx and Lenin, not just the RCG. (Read Imperialism and the Split in Socialism). Lenin stated that the European worker had reached a stage where it was not his labour, but the labour of the practically enslaved natives in its colonies that maintained society. Lenin noted that Britain derived more profit from India than from the British workers. This pattern is continued today, Britain has an FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) outflow 4.7 times its GDP. The living standards of the British working class depend upon imperialism.

The RCG is not "anti-working class" or "counter-revolutionary", it takes an active role in working class struggles in Britain, but urges the working class to completely break from the Labour Party and its imperialist paymasters. Without a complete break with the Labour Party, a socialist and anti-imperialist movement cannot be built in Britain.

I don't know if I know enough to do a Canadian one. I only know of the local Aryan Guard.

I think the Nation of Islam and the 5 percenters are an expression of the black communities reaction to oppression and racial inequality,in the absence of a vanguard.

The NOI (and their off-shoot, the 5 percenters,) are religions, and do you remember what Marx said on religion?

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. " Karl Marx

Now, as Muslims, I suppose that the NOI has the same qualities as any other Islamic group, in that they are capable of acting in an anti-imperialist role ( their intial stands against police brutality are admirable), but they also have all of the shortcomings of organized Islam, or any other organized religion, which manifest themselves in idealism, mysoginy, homophobia and contempt for other faiths.

Define what you mean by "third-worldist".

Do you have any justification for your assertion that the RCG are "anti-working class" and "counter-revolutionary"?