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Censure Zinoviev!
Last night Bristol SWP effectively voted to censure long-dead Bolshevik Grigory Zinoviev. The motion itself condemned "a model based on Syriza in Greece, the Mensheviks or other Centrist or left reformist tendencies." But the proposer used the opportunity to polemicise against Zinoviev for breaking party discipline and speaking outside the party. Ironically, the Bolsheviks, in whose tradition he was at pains to point out the SWP stand, didn't expel him...
I'm glad that piece of business has finally been resolutely resolved after almost 96 years of uncertainty over whether Zinoviev was in fact a bureaucratic autonomist, creeping feminist, or reformist Menshevik.
Zinoviev has actually become a contentious issue for them. As the party crumbles around they think the way to resolve the crisis is to debate whether Zinoviev should have been expelled in 1917 in order to justify the expulsions being made by the SWP presently.
Yeah, if anyone thinks that organisation isn't worth saving, I wholeheartedly agree.
"It is slaves, struggling to throw off their chains, who unleash the movement whereby history abolishes masters." - Raoul Vaneigem
"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things." - Karl Marx
"What distinguishes reform from revolution is not that revolution is violent, but that it links insurrection and communisation." - Gilles Dauvé
I bet Kamenev is rolling in his grave because the SWP crazies didn't mention him as well.
hah, wut?
Is this a real thing?
and from a socialist party I've been told by quite a few in my time here to be quite 'important for the British left?"
There are more important things going around, more contemporary things than such minutiae as the political status of Zinoviev. For example, the current whole SWP controversy.
"My heart sings for you both. Imagine it singing. la la la la."- Hannah Kay
"if you keep calling average working people idiots i am sure they will be more apt to listen to what you have to say. "-bcbm
"Sometimes false consciousness can be more destructive than apathy, just like how sometimes, doing nothing is actually better than doing the wrong thing."- Robocommie
"The ruling class would tremble, and the revolution would be all but assured." -Explosive Situation, on the Revleft Merry Prankster bus
This is what is right with the left! Holy fuck, taking on the problems of long since dead revolutionaries! You don't have to argue against shite organizations when they pull off crap like this. Absolutely priceless, absolute waste of time. Idiots. My heart is warm today.
Brospierre-Albanian baseball was played with a frozen ball of shit and tree branch
"History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union."
Henry L. Stimson: U.S. Secretary of War
Take the word “fear” and the phrase “for what, it’s not going to change anything” out of your minds and take control of your future.
[I]Juan Jose Fernandez, Asturias
"I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see"
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Freedom before Peace
One party's youth is running around London with Stalin posters. Another party is focusing on such bussineses. What the hell is wrong with you people on the island?
Which party's youth is running around London with Stalin posters?
CPGB-ml
You should watch their videos. They should be under comedy on YouTube, alas, they are not.
Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti.
Socialism resides entirely in the revolutionary negation of the capitalist ENTERPRISE, not in granting the enterprise to the factory workers.
- Bordiga
Word when you get censured 80 years after you are dead, you are probably a pretty cool guy, time to read this Zinoviev.
“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
-fka Redbrother
Probably Morning Star CPB?
Historical reenactment societies- exhuming corpses, necromancy, posthumous revolutionary debates (someone be my future, posthumous enemy- the living in 100 years will carry on our disagreement as the means to expel the infidels). Learning from history is not the same as living in it.
