Gascoigne:
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RandomPoster33@RandomPoster33·
That depends on what you call a “common program.” How is the program decided? The highest responsibility to the program means defending it in an open debate with the working class. Through this process, they can iron out its flaws as the party brings it to its intended audience.
Steiner and Brenner aren’t the working class, manifestly not. Ask yourself how did that trade union reformist advocate / leaker get so deep inside the party? That’s chilling, not inspiring. Read WITBD again. The Bolsheviks split from the Mensheviks. Pabloites from the IC. Good.
RandomPoster33@RandomPoster33·
Long after the ICFI broke from Pabloism, the acceptance of bureaucracy over Democratic Centralism, the ICFI ran Ed Winn, a union official, as their presidential candidate. The IC split with the IS, not over unions but over state bureaucracy. Nano-bureaucracy only brings it back.
The IC’s Union positions changed in the early 90s according to my reading. Before that the IC called for a Labor Party. But you know what? Unions are rubbish. And the idea of a labor party was foolish long before the IC reanalyzed the problem.
RandomPoster33@RandomPoster33·
Thank you for admitting that the ICFI can act foolishly. By supporting a Blanquist approach to the revolution, confusing the workers with Putschism, over the development of a mass party to win over a majority of the workers, the ICFI acts foolishly yet again. ⅓
RandomPoster33@RandomPoster33·
Tactics have definite repercussions, and the tactic of working within unions had repercussions within the party forcing it to renounce work within unions. Batta’s forgivable inexperience and ejection served not to uplift the advanced workers but to spread conspiracy theories. ⅔
RandomPoster33@RandomPoster33·
Democratic Power has to ask, who gave Batta the entire list of SEP members with their personal contact details? He did not steal the list, so the real culprit remains at large. Batta should have had the right to an opposition faction to support the union-faction tactic. 3/3
RandomPoster33@RandomPoster33·
To give up on the thousands in favor of the hundreds will lead to giving up on the hundreds for the tens, and then the handful. The thousands are not opportunists but instead recognize the objective forces on society holding sway over the entire working class. They also 1/2
RandomPoster33@RandomPoster33·
know from studying history, that these objective forces act w/ sudden+great force once they come to influence workers previously dominated by trade-unionism. A shift to revolutionary politics releases great energy that when harnessed can carry the party to distant shores. 2/2
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