Reply To: Status of World Socialist Party (US)
There is always going to be resistance, ALB. The class struggle cannot be avoided. It is the never ceasing treadmill.
There is no question as Buffet said, his class has been winning. But there are signs that workers are growing more combative after a period of subjugation. (Blindly, if we generously include the populists outbursts like the Yellow Vests)
The issue we face is what role will our organization have in it, if any, at all.
The socialist case is that we must transcend class struggle and establish a class-free society. Are our fellow-workers any closer to understanding and achieving the conditions for such a society?
Or once more, are they placing their faith in trust in leaders and reforms? Now we have Elizabeth Warren and her radical shadow Alexandra Ocasio Cortez replacing Sanders as the media focus.
“No saviour from on high delivers,
No faith have we in prince or peer.
Our own right hand the chains must shiver,
Chains of hatred, greed and fear.”
Surely after near on 105 years of much the same approach, we should start to separate the wheat from the chaff, identify our (as one comrade said) Unique Selling Point, locate our target audience and start launching this message with all our resources. And I think for the first time in the Party’s history we have those resources at hand. Let’s not waste them.
We understand that not every country’s political legacy is identical and that we need to adapt and adjust to those local specific conditions. We cannot just simply transport the SPGB to foreign lands. And let’s be honest – that is what we did during the British Empire, cloned the SPGB.
We have the basis of a genuine world socialist movement that we should embrace in this epoch of global political ramifications, from migrants to climate change.
Even currently within the Party we have many non-UK residents active in the committees and the running of it. Let’s build functioning WSM and not one that remains an aspiration.