Capitalism is a world system. Wall Street and Cité Soleil are two sides of the same coin -- they both reproduce each other. What is "pure" capitalism? Capitalism as it exists is purely the product of...
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Capitalism is a world system. Wall Street and...Capitalism is a world system. Wall Street and Cité Soleil are two sides of the same coin -- they both reproduce each other. What is "pure" capitalism? Capitalism as it exists is purely the product of...
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CWI is not Trotskyist, they are Labourite...CWI is not Trotskyist, they are Labourite reformists.
Peter Taaffe in The State (1983, reissued by CWI in 2006):
If the next Labour government introduced an Enabling Bill into Parliament to...
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You can read some of the highlights of what the...You can read some of the highlights of what the Trotskyists have done here, on the introductory note to the Internationalist Group web page.
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Yep, here's what one of them darn ultra-left...Yep, here's what one of them darn ultra-left orthodox Trotskyists wrote:
"The petty bourgeois, the peasant included, is naturally closer to the liberal than to the proletarian; he is closer as a...
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Some people here are apparently incapable of...Some people here are apparently incapable of seriously discussing politics, particularly the "woman question." They see every argument that has seriously been attempted in this thread as 1. a...
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The USSR was not "state capitalist." The...The USSR was not "state capitalist." The Bureaucracy was not a new ruling class with its own definite class interests. At every serious challenge of proletarian political revolution or capitalist...
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What is so funny about this topic?
Why are so...What is so funny about this topic?
Why are so many people joking about this?
This is serious.
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The original question is moot.
The existing...The original question is moot.
The existing Stalinist, Mao-Stalinist, social-democratic and "Trotskyist" parties worldwide will never make a workers revolution. Thus they will never hold power...
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Wow, "anarcho-communism" must be a new word for...Wow, "anarcho-communism" must be a new word for national-reformism.
Are you seriously proposing a race tax?
Full citizenship rights for all immigrants! Mobilize workers power to defend...
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The bottom line is you're a chauvinist pig...The bottom line is you're a chauvinist pig apologist for imperialism, Red Lion. Communists demand full citizenship rights for all immigrants.
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Leninists recognize the right of all nations to...Leninists recognize the right of all nations to self-determination, as a means to overcoming national divisions among the workers and uniting our class in struggle against the capitalist class.
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Yes Charles, there were and are many differences...Yes Charles, there were and are many differences between Russia and South Africa.
1. The South African working class is larger and much more powerful in proportion to the whole population, than...
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Should the Russian revolution of 1917 have...Should the Russian revolution of 1917 have stopped at February? Remember, Russia was in a very delicate and unstable situation. A new provisional government, made up of many long-time revolutionary...
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Apartheid was not "broken." The white Apartheid...Apartheid was not "broken." The white Apartheid rulers made a deal with the ANC, and together they now rule over the oppressed black workers and masses of South Africa. The white capitalist ruling...
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This only proves that the PSL has taught you a...This only proves that the PSL has taught you a Stalinist, bureaucratic conception of the party, besides one that is very cynical. A party is a social organism. It is made up of members and cadres...
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What should the SACP do is the wrong question. It...What should the SACP do is the wrong question. It was not a revolutionary party in 1994 and is not one now. You might as well ask "what should the PSL do"? I say split. What needs to be done in South...
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Genuine communists do not support capitalist...Genuine communists do not support capitalist governments, not even capitalist governments in "fragile and unique situations."
Genuine communists oppose all capitalist governments and parties and...
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The South African working class is the powerhouse...The South African working class is the powerhouse of the whole African continent. But it is held in check by the bourgeois tripartite alliance ANC-SACP-COSATU. The task of revolutionists is to break...
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Communists oppose all age of consent laws and say...Communists oppose all age of consent laws and say that no state, be it a bourgeois state or a workers state, should criminalize sexual relations that are based on the effective consent of those...
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Ever heard of restaurants? You can order anything...Ever heard of restaurants? You can order anything on the menu. But because of economies of scale and industrial technique, it still requires much less labor to feed 100 restaurant guests than for 100...
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The material basis of socialism is the increased...The material basis of socialism is the increased productivity of labor that shortens the labor time socially necessary for the reproduction of social relations. The point of the revolution is to give...
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Because it will be much more efficient. You'll be...Because it will be much more efficient. You'll be free to do your own chores the old fashioned way if that's what floats your boat. But you won't be free to make your wife do them!
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It's not an assumption, it's an observation of...It's not an assumption, it's an observation of the bourgeois family as an institution for the enslavement of women.
Communists are not opposed to any variety of human companionship -- promiscuous,...
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But those pressures are not just tensions that...But those pressures are not just tensions that push people apart. They are just as often compulsions that keep partners unhappily together.
You are beginning from the assumption that the "natural"...
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Why? We don't know what personal life will be...Why? We don't know what personal life will be like in communism. The abundance of goods, and the socialization of "women's work" like child care, cooking and cleaning will certainly remove the...