People who spend their time reading and thinking tend to think that’s the most important activity. Since Plato, we’ve known this.
There are many more equivalent or greater organizations of ML or Maoist bent. The difference is that they think it’s “critically supporting AES” or “thinking dialectically” that are the miracle solution for dissatisfaction with the left. For example, RedSails thinks all three are the key to mass popularity. Going to activist-rallies and handing out pamphlets isn’t much better than giving lectures. Every worker must learn that Trotsky was a punk ass bitch and exactly why Hegel was 99% right!
I don’t think mass popularity of strong critique is the key to revolution, but I’m certain there are elements of rhetoric, communication, and action that hold us back and deserve criticism.
Call me an entryist, but I think people should organize where they can, wielding critiques that matter to “spread class consciousness.”
You don’t have to join a tiny reading circle to be informed by their strongest messages. You don’t have to be a theorist to use theory as a weapon.
People who spend their time reading and thinking tend to think that’s the most important activity. Since Plato, we’ve known this.
There are many more equivalent or greater organizations of ML or Maoist bent. The difference is that they think it’s “critically supporting AES” or “thinking dialectically” that are the miracle solution for dissatisfaction with the left. For example, RedSails thinks all three are the key to mass popularity. Going to activist-rallies and handing out pamphlets isn’t much better than giving lectures. Every worker must learn that Trotsky was a punk ass bitch and exactly why Hegel was 99% right!
I don’t think mass popularity of strong critique is the key to revolution, but I’m certain there are elements of rhetoric, communication, and action that hold us back and deserve criticism.
Call me an entryist, but I think people should organize where they can, wielding critiques that matter to “spread class consciousness.”
You don’t have to join a tiny reading circle to be informed by their strongest messages. You don’t have to be a theorist to use theory as a weapon.