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what CURRENT person alive right now gives the BEST Marxist analysist?
Hey guys. What Economist, Philosopher, Revolutionary gives current reports and analysis on the world's current events via a blog, website or any type of media/publication?
Can you guys provide some links, etc? be nice! thanks!
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
This isn't one person, but it counts: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
it sure does man! thank you!
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
It is a matter of preference, but Zizek is good (not all the time, though).
David Harvey is also good.
But DNZ's link is most likely the best bet.
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The "C"PGB considers China and North Korea to be a socialist state. Is that how you want your Marxist analysis's to be like? I wouldn't.
MARX-ENGELS-LENIN-STALIN
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not want our enemies to have guns, so why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"Here, in the Soviet Union, I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity." - Paul RobesonSOLIDARITY
FREEDOM
I tend to over look that kind of stuff. I try to look for the "real" revolutionary/working class perspective. Not some stalinist or pseudo-communism like China
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
Well, as a Marxist-Leninist (or as you would say, "Stalinist") myself I will say that there are a lot of M-Ls that are complete dimwits. I knew a guy who consider himself a "Marxist-Engelsist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist-Dengist" and believed that Iran was a Socialist state. So yeah, I would look to places other than the CPGB-"ML" who were probably crying over the death of Kim-Jong Il. Look at the "Hands off China" leaflet where they say 21st century China is still Socialist
Anyways, Here is them saying that North Korea was socialist:
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?sec...statementId=48
Not to mention they consider Post-Stalin USSR, Serb-Nationalist and Titoite Yugoslavia to be socialist.
A website I usually go to for a Marxist perspective things on economics, imperialism, culture in general, and "socialist" nations is Theredphoenixapl.org
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not want our enemies to have guns, so why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"Here, in the Soviet Union, I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity." - Paul Robeson
Well, as a Marxist-Leninist (or as you would say, "Stalinist") myself I will say that there are a lot of M-Ls that are complete dimwits. I knew a guy who consider himself a "Marxist-Engelsist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist-Dengist" and believed that Iran was a Socialist state. So yeah, I would look to places other than the CPGB-"ML" who were probably crying over the death of Kim-Jong Il. Look at the "Hands off China" leaflet where they say 21st century China is still Socialist
Anyways, Here is them saying that North Korea was socialist:
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?sec...statementId=48
Not to mention they consider Post-Stalin USSR, Serb-Nationalist and Titoite Yugoslavia to be socialist.
A website I usually go to for a Marxist perspective things on economics, imperialism, culture in general, and "socialist" nations is Theredphoenixapl.org
I honestly didn't think that Stalinist or Leninist was the same thing. OK.. but lets please not get into that debate now.. For anyone else reading this.. there's plenty of threads out there about THAT discussion.
Basically what I meant to say was that I just like to read about current analysis from a non liberal/democrat view.. i want something revolutionary
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
Theredphoenixapl.org is a Marxist revolutionary news analysis
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not want our enemies to have guns, so why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"Here, in the Soviet Union, I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity." - Paul Robeson
You're confusing the Weekly Worker comrades with the CPGB-ML, a totally separate organization. That link is to the former.
The CPGB-PCC is an post-Trotskyist, post-Maoist, Orthodox Marxist organization.
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
wow. i really dig this site.. thanks man!
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
Carlos Perez Soto, a Chilean professor (he did not even finish his career, but he could own anybody with a PHD), he teaches at my UNI. Known as "the last consequent one". They have told me that in the other UNI he does class he with others sang Marx's birthday "happy birth day karl marx", lol. Although his books are in spanish, I really recommend the books, they are great. Very, very easy to understand him, even if you are new to spanish.
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become." Arthur Schopenhauer
They are a mixture of classical social democracy and Trotskism ant vehemently ani soviet and anti maoist china.
There is no view which can complete a Marxist analysis. Try reading from multiple sources. Paul Mattick and Michael Parenti are necessary for a Marxist analysis. Also you should make sure to read from the reaction, as often their attitudes shine light on the current stage of class conflict. It also helps you know of popular ways that the bourgeoisie subjects the proletariat to its hegemony. Knowing your types of reactionary by heart is pretty important.
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped." MLK
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Comrade, I would have listed you first if you maintained a blog.
The CPGB-PCC had its origins in a post-Maoist formation, and both past and present weren't/aren't anti-Soviet in the sense of SWP opportunism.
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
"Communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism; it is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature and between man and man – the true resolution of the strife between existence and essence, between objectification and self-confirmation, between freedom and necessity, between the individual and the species. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution." - Karl Marx
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So that we can start his/her personallity cult asap?
No individuals can give a coherent Marxist analysis of reality; only organisations can do that.
Beware of organisations that function like stillclocks (ie, always maintain the same conjunctural pseudo-analysis, so that eventually they get it right, but only by accident). Beware of organisations that invent new "phases" or "stages" of capitalist development, especially if such new phases or stages somehow coincide with the rise of a new development of Marxist theory, by coincidence fostered by their own leader. Beware of organisations that revolve around an individual leader. Beware of organisations that represent themselves as the only revolutionary current in the country/world. Beware of easy formulas, simple solutions, and anything that resembles "if only people would listen to us, all problems would be solved".
Luís Henrique
Although I have some disagreements with them, two people come to mind:
Loren Goldner and Paul Mattick Jr.
There are others, but these two produce a regular & ongoing analysis of capitalism that is widely available online. Spend a few minutes searching and you can find all sorts of writings, interviews, videos, etc.
"Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't." - Harvey Pekar
