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This is Peter Hudis book on the Alternative to capitalism
There is a critiques on this book made by Socialist Studies.( Pdf download )
I think Adam Buick book on the Alternative to capitalism is more objective
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg
I do not hink Lenin was ambivalent, he was never a socialist/communist, Without Lenin, the Soviet Union and his followers socialism/communism would have been in a much better stand. I do not think that Marx was a Hegelian thru all his life either, I might say as CLR James: There is nothing for us on Hegel. The only thing that I care about Marx and Engel was that their were real socialist/communist, and we should have their class consciousness, and we do not need to worship them, and it is not a question of academia, or for intellectuals, or having PHD to understand them, and both made mistakes like any human beings, and Engels dedicated his life and his personal resources to propagate Marx ideas and socialism.
Kevin Anderson
Probably, I am out of topic, but I am going to answer the question briefly
News and letters committee is an organization original founded by Raya Dunayeskaya, and Peter Hudis was one of her personal secretary, and he was an Organizer along with Olga Domansky
They had difference in regard to Raya Dunayeskaya concept of organization and philosophy, the trustee of her works, and financing of the organization. Olga stayed in News and Letters committee
Peter Hudis and Kilman formed a new group known as Marxist Humanist Initiative, and later on they had differences too and Kilman continued
directing the organization and Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson formed International Marxist Humanist organizationsBasically these are their differences:
An Open Letter to Members of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
I did not say that Luxembourg said that , I have added the two wrong conceptions into one message
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Henryk Grossmann was the first Marxist economist that proposed a theory of crisis based on the Marxian law of the falling rate of profit due to the increasing organic composition of capital. This view, while initially disappointingly minotirarian, has become very popular nowadays
within Marxist Political Economy.
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Rosa Luxemburg’s theory of capitalist collapse is the idea that capitalism is unsustainable and will eventually collapse due to its own contradictions. She believed that a revolution was necessary to transform capitalism into socialism.
Explanation
Social Reform or Revolution
In her 1899 pamphlet, Social Reform or Revolution?, Luxemburg argued that capitalism’s inner contradictions would lead to its collapse. She believed that trade unions and reformist political parties could not create a socialist society.
The Accumulation of Capital
In her 1913 book, The Accumulation of Capital, Luxemburg argued that capitalism’s constant expansion through trade with non-capitalist countries was necessary. She believed that once this expansion was no longer possible, capitalism would collapse.
The inevitability of collapse
Luxemburg believed that capitalism’s destructiveness would herald its defeat. She believed that the working class would eventually revolt against the rule of capital.There is a large division among members or groups of the US ruling class
Rosa Luxembourg tried to blame the problem on Engels by saying that probably, he changed everything on Volume 2 and 3 of Das Capital.
Engels published those two volumes because the daughter of Marx asked him to do that, and he was one of the few person able to understand Marx handwriting and Marx was a very disorganized person, but Engels was a very organized writer
He published exactly what was written on the manuscripts, he did not alter anything, the problem is that Rosa Luxembourg was mistaken and trying to question Marx she created more problems for herself, and it has been proven that the collapse theory is completely wrong and the main cause of the capitalist crisis is not the fall of the rate of profits, it is overproduction
Frantz Mehring who is one of the best biographers of Marx said that Engels was completely faithful to everything that Marx wrote including his unfinished works. Engels has been the scapegoat on many distortions made on Marx theory
Anyway, this is why decomposition is linked to phenomenon like Trump. The naked idiocy, amoralism and nihilism as well as the decline in the ability of any bourgeois faction to put forward anything like a coherent plan are all an expression of this underlying crisis of capitalism which can not do anything but get worse over time.
————————————————————————————Right wing populism is a world phenomenon and Trump is not the only one. I have seen some places where the whole left has been wiped out completely by the workers and they have elected and selected backward, and reactionary right wing candidates, they do not even care about the immoral characters of the candidates, in traditional terms they can be called lumpens, and crooks, and they have forgotten about everything honestly done in the past by others political groups. This reality is also affecting the minds of the workers
The communist manifesto said it very clearly that the development of capitalism was going to produce all those changes in our society
There are three groups of Marxist Humanists, and there are some differences among them, and the most active one is the International Marxist Humanist Organization
The one who made more emphasis on the concept of Trumpism is the Marxist Humanist Initiative.
Their definition of Fascism/Nazism is the same one propagated by the Leninists and the Trotskyists.
They do not see fascism/nazism as a particular form adopted by the German and Italian capitalists in order to administer capitalism.
It is the same old idea that all right wings governments and presidential candidates are fascists or Neo fascists, which is totally incorrect, on the contrary, the left has paved the way for the emerge of the right wingers, and Argentina is the best example. All leftwing reforms have failed
I do not think this particular group asked workers to vote for Kamala Harris.
Having academic knowledge, or academia, is not a guarantee for clear understanding of socialism,
I have seen many simple workers who have had a much better understanding and have dedicated their entire life to the cause of socialism
Trump’s War Against Immigrants in Political and Historical Perspective
Trump’s War Against Immigrants in Political and Historical Perspective
The extent to which the second Trump administration presents us with a reality most people in this country have never fathomed, let alone experienced, is nowhere more evident than in his impending wholesale assault on the rights of immigrants.
Drastically reducing the numbers of those with temporary or permanent residency while deporting as many undocumented as possible is the signature issue that has defined Trump’s trajectory since he entered politics. He and his allies have been planning for years to enact an assortment of policies to help “make America white again,” and there is every indication they will hit the ground running. They are prepared to implement their agenda, and must we prepared to resist it.
Trump’s second term will not be like the first, when his effort to take a sledgehammer to immigration by ending DACA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Family Preference Visas (mistakenly termed “chain migration”), and reducing asylum claims to close to zero were limited or blocked by the courts. This is not only due to him having a six to three majority on the Supreme Court (with many Circuit and Appellant judges as his appointees) but because restrictive immigration policies today have much more popular support than in 2017. This is a major reason he won not just the electoral college but the popular vote—aided by Harris’s studied refusal to sharply distinguish herself from his anti-immigrant position.
The struggle in the First International was between the follower of Bukanin and the Marxists that is the reason why the concept of Marxism was created by Engels and some of Marx followers. The SPGB has an article calling Bakunin a proto Leninist
https://www.marxists.org/subject/marxmyths/maximilien-rubel/article.htm
Where did Marx obtain the concept of a stateles and moneyless society, and the concept of according to their needs ? It was from the anarchists,
The followers of Proudhon avodcated for the same economic principles of the US economist Henry George which is based on the possession of the land, it is an agrarian conception similar to the Russian populists
Anarchism is older than Marx and Engels, and Europe was not the only place where Anarchism emerged. The concept of socialism/communism is older than Marx and Engels too
There were also anarchist movement in Latin American in the 1800 and the anarchists in Cuba had more influences within the working class rank than the Marxists and the Leninist
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel-cappelletti-anarchism-in-latin-americaAs well in the Arabs world there were materialist philosophers. Europe is not the only place in the world where advanced political, philosophical ideas emerged
The socialist party wrote a pamphlet indicating that most of the concepts expressed by Marx and Engels in the communist manifesto already existed within the working class, and we have also indicated that the manifesto was a German manifesto and the manifesto contains certain state capitalists and reformists
clausesBefore the Paris Commune Marx and Engels had blanquist conception and Engels participated in certain armed revolts, and also they had conceptions similar to the Mensheviks.
The ethnological book of Marx shows that there were conceptual differences between Marx and Engels
I have not read the book yet, but he is not the only one who have presented those ideas, and it was also discussed when we had the Yahoo groups forum, the problem is that the Leninists are using that conception in order to justify the workers state and that Marx supported the existence of a republic, but they are based on what Engels expressed that the democratic republic was much better for the development of socialists ideas within a capitalist society
I understand that when they were very young, both ( Marx and Engels ) they were petty bourgeois liberals and they were influenced by bourgeois conceptions, and then when they obtained more political maturity, and after the Commune of Paris they changed several of their old conceptions and abandoned some of their blanquist stand and opt for workers participating in the capitalist limited democracy, which the Leninists call bourgeois democracy
Personally, I think they were more influenced by the French Anarchists in order to become socialists and many of their conceptions came from the French Anarchists, for me, the communist manifesto is not a communist document, it was revolutionary during their time but several of the concepts expressed in that documents were abandoned by them, and still there are many so called marxists who have not moved away further than the communist manifesto
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/marx-communist-republicanism-historical-context. How Karl Marx became a
communist. I think Marx and Engels became communist when the came into contact with the Anarchistshttps://www.marxists.org/archive/rubel/1973/marx-anarchism.htm
The Internationalist Perspective, the internationalists tendency, and the International Communists Currents are left communists and Leninists but sometimes they write good articles, and they have taken correct stands on several world issues, I would not reject them completely and sometimes I have seen them supporting some of our point of view
He has done the same thing that has been done by the Marxist humanists and the followers of Raya Dunayeskaya by dividing Marx into the Young Marx when he was a so called Hegelian and then the matured Marx who became a humanist, or Lenin who also became two personalities, one before 1914 and another person after 1914 when he was done research on the betrayal of the second international and he started to read Hegel Science of Logic.
I prefer to visualize Marx and Engels when they were politically inmature and then they became more matured when they started to be influenced by external political and economic events,
Nothing strange, they gave a Nobel Peace Prize to Barrack Obama, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter and they were planning to give one to George Bush, probably they are going to give a Nobel Peace Prize to Joe Biden
Machado and Guaido are not a pair of doves either, they are a pair of crooks too, they are also puppets of the USA fighting for power like Maduro and willing to establish another repressive regime. She has called for deeper sanctions against Venezuela which have created more poverty and she has called for US military intervention in Venezuela which might produce the death of thousand peoples and another Vietnam in the region, and that war can spread like a brush fire to other countries
The US government has issued a reward, or an arrest warrant against Nicolas Maduro, but they have not issued an arrest warrant against Joe Biden, and Donald Trump who is convicted felon that is going to become president on January 20.
They are the world sheriff like the old days of the western movies when bounty hunters were paid in order to kill others peoples, this is a call to kill a state leader
They were protesting when the government of Iran issued a warrant against Trump for the killing of one of their generals.
In Haiti peoples were asking for the arrest of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton because they are a couples of crooks and criminals
There are outstanding warrants in some countries against George Bush and Henry Kissinger who was accomplish of the assassination of more than 30,000 Chileans and part of the coup
The president of Bolivia Morales was almost killed when his airplane was running out of fuel and he was not allowed to land in several countries to refuel his airplanes due to instructions given by the USA
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kvkrv7yrdo
Russia is also claiming that Greenland is part of its sphere of national interests
China has interests in the artic region
The so called communist influences in Panama is a very old topics and distortions propagated by the US government and the CIA, but they have placed their own men in power since the time that the Panama Canal was built, in order to protect their investment, commercial routes, and spheres of influences, this is what the CIA said about the Torrijos Government and the students movements:
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75B00380R000100050143-2.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000442808.pdf
Torrijos had a very strange helicopter accident and it was blamed on Noriega who was on the CIA payroll. Panama was founded after a nationalist revolt provoked by the USA against the Great Colombia, therefore, the USA influence in Panama is stronger than the so called communists.
During the Cold War period the USA had more influences in Latin America than the Soviet Union, the soviets used the cuban government in order to finance certain guerrillas groups but they were not very successful, but the USA also financed its guerrillas groups too such as the Nicaraguan contras, and some weapons were provided using the government of Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Torrijos. Omar Torrijos was a nationalist military man like Trujillo and Cardenas
The new allegations of Donald Trump ( and his capitalists backers ) is that the Panama Canal is controlled by the Communist party of China, but the canal is not controlled by the Chinese government, it is controlled by the Panamanian government and a Hong Kong shipping company and all the profits is transferred to the government of Panama, and the profit is used for maintenance and upgrade.
The USA is playing the victim card, that they are been overcharged, but they are paying the same fees as any other shipping country, or shipping vessels, and the transits of vessels have been limited due to the fact that the lake that supply water to the canal is getting dry and that lake also provides water to the panama population
When the US signed the new canal agreement they already had several military bases in Latin America such as in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Aruba and Curacao, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize, Colombia and Peru, and the have a naval fleet that is always moving around and patrolling the whole region, who has the biggest influences in the region ? . The Panama Canal can not be used to accommodate the larger and wide military warships, but the Chinese megaport in Peru can take any type of maritime vessel, and that is the real threat to the USA capitalsit class
The real influences of the chinese capitalists is in the whole region based on commercial trades, and commercial routes, loans and the sales of military weapons, there is not any ideological communist influences from the Chinese capitalists, even more in China you can not find the works of Mao Tse Tung, it is only a red scare for the US voters
