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“What about reading/dictating and recording the articles of the Socialist Standard ?”
This is actually a new project that started this month.
http://www.worldsocialistradio.com
Or
Or on our revived YouTube channel
I finally got a copy of the Jasper Bernes book. “The Test of Communism” is chapter two, of three. The first chapter is something about workers councils, where he seems to be shoehorning the Paris Commune into that. Will report back…
“If you’re serious about going to a couple of bookfairs, I may be able to accompany you.”
Well it wouldn’t be that costly of a journey from the UK. Not sure what the response would be or if we could find a table to leave leaflets. Could maybe leave them in bars or cafes. Looks like we just missed the Bilbao fair.
https://anarchistnews.org/calendar
There’s one that happens in Madrid in November or December, doesn’t seem like they have a 2025 date yet
Other events might be on here:
https://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/Translated by an Argentinian at a guess? Is this for a print leaflet? If the party wants to fund me to go to some of the multiple radical and anarchist bookfairs in Spain I’ll hand it out. But we will have to change “vos” to “tu”
I think there are some passages about this in the Martov book, and Kautsky mentions it in places too.
One thing that stands out to me is this; “In the previous revolutionary wave in Russia, in the territorial soviets, the workers were represented by one delegate per 25,000 workers while the other strata had one to 125,000” So much for the supposed democratic superiority of the soviets.
I couldn’t see anything extremely objectionable in that IP piece. They are talking about a *transition period* not a *transitional society* which is an entirely different thing.
I think your sites are performing a different function.
As far as I can tell the purpose of this new was to be a short introduction with a limited amount of text, like a pamphlet.
There’s definitely a place for larger sites too
I still think you’re making assumptions that aren’t in the text.
Perhaps write a letter to the Standard so that PJS can reply?
“Then I wonder how do you see society being organised? Because without the state to distribute law, protect those from exploitation and to prevent the re-establishment of capitalism, all myself see is a chaotic system were those who are able to gain power rule.”
I think this is a matter of semantics. When socialists speak of a “stateless” society they are not talking about the absence of a body that would fulfill the functions mentioned above.
What they are talking about is the form of this body. Instead of being something above society, that functions to preserve minority rule – “a state” – this body would be something that has become absorbed into the whole of society, for example through the use of mandated and recallable delegates and through an increase in democratic participation.
“Comrade Delta affair? What’s that?”
They tried to cover up an incident of rape involving one of their leaders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Smith_(activist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK)#Internal_crisis_over_allegations_of_rape
I think the SWP has a greatly reduced presence on university campuses since the Comrade Delta affair.
But shouldn’t this thread be about the Liberal Democrats? Reform is still small fry compared to them.
