[jondwhite]

What is the Eye newspaper and what is the Latvian film? Are there more details anywhere on the behaviour cited as the reason for rejection of an applicant?

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On the classification of the CPGB/CPB as tankies I stand corrected.Numbers of tankies proper in the UK must therefore be vanishingly small, even smaller than first supposed.The CPGB-ML look bigger than they are at protests, those carrying flags can be their entire membership and sympathisers.Conversely, the AWL see "Stalinists" everywhere, even in the Labour Party, which is useful as they (falsely) claim the mantle of anti-Stalinism.

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Tankies (CPGB) peaked at 50,000 in the 1950s.Trots (SWP) peaked at 10,000 in the mid 1990s.The tankies suffered the most dramatic fall off in 1988 but both are irreversibly downhill.CPB claimed 1,000 a decade or so ago, but its likely they are closer to us now (<500), likewise the SWP since the Delta scandal in 2011.

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The Spart article might be worse in terms of mendaciousnessIt quotes Lenin 'No one, I think, in studying the question of the economic system of Russia, has denied its transitional character. 'I'm pretty sure the SPGB were denying this before Lenin published.

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A good succinct argument against Tankies (such as the long-winded article at 'Socialist Musings')  in respect of Leninism is that 'actions speak louder than words'.Trots (who may be less stupid than Tankies) will accept that what Lenin instituted was not socialism, but seek to soft-soap it as 'done under conditions of civil war', a tacit admission that it was, in fact, capitalism.Contrarian Trots like Ticktin double-down, in a way Tankies shy away from, with Ticktin arguing capitalist forms of exchange did not exist, something no one (not least anyone who lived there) takes seriously.In particular reference to Socialist Musings,Socialist Musings are misrepresenting Montague (and Marx) by claiming reference to Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) advice to communist society (to call for 'from each according to his ability …') is advice to workers under capitalism when in fact Marx's advice to workers under capitalism is in Value, Price and Profit (1865) to call for 'abolition of the wages system'

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the proletariat, being a class constituting a vast majority (almost the entirety of the population), turns the state from an organ of class repression by a minority class to an organ of class repression of the small but powerful bourgeoisie and counterrevolutionaries. Hence, the state as such ceases to be the state but continues to exist even in a socialist society.

This is just argument by assertion, and this wasn't a Classical Marxist conception.I pity the reader to read at the bottom 'To be continued'  

[jondwhite]

Thanks

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Which issue and what was the comment?

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In reply to the original point, the lower level of ideological commitment of DSA makes it weaker (ideologically) for it. A high level of ideological commitment makes us stronger ideologically. We should keep this, not water it down. Diluting would only reduce our membership at least disillusioning existing members.

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What is the invitation to submit anything? I thought this was an existing book for sale?

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Marx@200: tripleC special issue on Marx's bicentenary – Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory17th May, 2018 Fuchs, Christian and Lara Monticelli, eds. 2018. Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16 (2): 406-741.  https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/38https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1040  May 5 was Marx's bicentenary. The journal tripleC celebrates this event with a special issue comprised of 30 articles on 350 pages that show the urgent need for Marxian critique today.  The special issue features a debate between David Harvey & Michael Hardt/Toni Negri on the relevance of Marx today, contributions by Silvia Federici, Slavoj Žižek, Erik Olin Wright, and many more; the first English translation of a text by Rosa Luxemburg on Karl Marx, a review of Sven-Eric Liedman's new Marx-biography, etc.  Topics include e.g. Marx in the context of universal alienation, formal and real subsumption, praxis, primitive accumulation, feminism, radical change, post-capitalism/alternatives to capitalism, communication, the working class, social reproduction, ecology, social movements, religion/liberation theology, the lumpenproletariat, the law and the state, anthropology, revolution, ideology, reification, sexuality, culture, nationalism, new racism, imperialism, neoliberalism, global capitalism, humanism, etc.  With contributions by David Harvey, Michael Hardt/Toni Negri, Christian Fuchs, Silvia Federici, Slavoj Žižek, Erik Olin Wright, Lara Monticelli, Friederike Beier, Wayne Hope, Todd Wolfson & Peter Funke, Joss Hands, Peter McLaren & Petar Jandrić, Ingo Schmidt, Bahar Kayıhan, Joff P.N. Bradley & Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Paul O'Connell, Chihab El Khachab, Franklin Dmitryev & Eugene Gogol, Bryant William Sculos, Leila Salim Leal, Paul Reynolds, Ben Whitham, Rosa Luxemburg.

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Google Translate offers

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For the bicentennial of the birth of Karl Marx, Humanity enters, with this special occasion with exceptional contributions, in the still intense debate around the thought and action of the great intellectual and German politician.

[jondwhite]

I believe this will be a party first

[jondwhite]

Proof that nearly car free cities with low air pollution and low noise can work under capitalismhttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/16/welcome-cycle-heaven-moved-family-netherlands-houten-utrecht

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none of what Houten stands for is radical or alternative. This Dutch city’s choice to move away from the car, to clear the air, to invest in healthy individuals, is not an unreachable ideal.Houten is the future many of us trapped in car-focused societies dream of, but it’s happening here and now. Nothing is stopping other cities from making the same decisions.

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gnome wrote:

jondwhite wrote:

A commenter also asked'Is there even an active Socialist Party of Canada?'

No doubt you responded affirmatively…

Yep. Thought it was a bit of a strange question actually.

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A commenter also asked'Is there even an active Socialist Party of Canada?'

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