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I’m trying to find some documents that outline the internal decision-making structure of the German SDP (up to the end of the Weimar period) and USPD, specifically in regard to how much influence standard members had within these organisations.
Anyone able to point me anywhere?
If you’ve not seen it, then, to a certain extent, here, chapter starting on page 116?
(Schorske’s 1955 book ‘German Social Democracy 1905-1917’)
Re: #257052, in which:
‘A comrade who is reviewing Nick Heath’s book ‘The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future’ points out […].’
Someone is finally going to review it? The last time there was mention of this book:
ALB on July 13, 2023
‘[ …] I thought we had reviewed that book by Nick Heath, but apparently not. But I remember now. We were going to but the reviewer said it was boring, a real trudge to get through, and had no index, and didn’t submit a review because he didn’t want to have to offend the author.’DJP on July 13, 2023:
‘[..] Incidentally, I’ve been told a second edition of this book has already been printed and there will be an index available online.’What has happened since then? This must be the printing containing an index — https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/product/the-idea/ — but has it become un-‘boring’ as well?
(No online index so far as I can find. I can’t even find a webpage for the publisher Just Books.)
In semi-connection with vanguardism (discussed above in this thread), ‘Indo’ the council-communist poster on libcom who has been translating and posting content from the KAPD press, has presented his (I think, valuable) view on the terms ‘council communist’ vs ‘Dutch-German Left’ vs councilist, i.e. the real vs unreal differences between what the three terms supposedly mean.
It’s here on this so far otherwise utterly worthless page: https://libcom.org/discussion/ranking-libertarian-socialist-currents-worst-best.
To find it, search this: ‘ I don’t believe there’s any difference between Dutch-German Left and Council Communism’
Wez wrote:
‘I will have to examine this ‘constitution’ more closely and find out how it came to be deified by the ‘liberals’ over there.’
The US Constitution was the counterrevolutionary overthrow of the Articles of Confederation, according to certain Americans of the (market-)libertarian confession:
https://mises.org/mises-wire/1787-constitution-was-radical-assault-spirit-revolution
Leipold’s ‘Citizen Marx’ reviewed by Mike Macnair of the Weekly Worker. (He’s very fond of it.)
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1528/very-essence-of-marxism
It won’t be news to DJP, but for others, if interested, the Zoe Baker book on anarchism, which comes up on page 3 of this thread, is reviewed here by Paul Raekstad. Been there a year in fact.
Fitting in (sort of maybe) with my #254343 above, and the IP critique of David Adam, here is, fresh off the press, Hermann Lueer’s critique of Postone:
Hermann Lueer: On the Critique of Moishe Postone’s »Time, Labor and Social Domination«
(Hermann Lueer is the labor-voucherist who republished the GIC’s ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ and speaks often about it, including what he considers to be its ‘current significance’:
Months later, Lazare continues. First letter, here:
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1521/letters/
(Of course in the letters section of the following week he was roundly denounced as ‘the Renegade Lazare’!)
This brings to mind, rather tangentially, I admit, the Doric Film Festival. Click the video to hear the text under it read:
citizenoftheworld:
Re your #256243:
Could you briefly tell us:
1) The names of the three groups.
2) The better known individual(s) associated with each. (Kliman for one, Hudis for the one you mention, and [who??] for the third?)
3) Over what political issues the original organisation split into three and/or what their present important (?) differences are.
Replying to ALB’s #256132:
Yes, that’s it. The more Canadian states, the more Canadian senators. Having 20 new senators (because 2 per state) from the 10 Canadian provinces would probably make it impossible for Republicans to ever have a senate majority again.
But that’s not the honest answer Trump would give. Let’s return to the press conference:
[Trump:] ‘Well, think about it. This is not rocket science, you know. The whole population of all of Canada put together is barely more than the population of California. And how many states is California?? California is just one state, right? But, you know, those 10 or 12 or 13 or however many divisions they have in Canada now can be kept, no reason not to. They can be the *counties* of the great state of Canada. In fact one of them, inhabited by Eskimos, I believe, might even choose to secede from the state of Canada and become part of Greenland.’
(He refers to Nunavut, one of the 3 federal territories.)
This is not the right thread for this, but the others I considered aren’t either. There ought to be a way to search for threads by thread-name. There is probably one called ‘inflation’. (Or several that at least have ‘inflation’ in the name.)
Anyway, here, international busybody Musk praises (as ‘perfectly articulated’) the explanation of, and cure for, inflation preached to a group of industrial workers by the next Canadian prime minister:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1876503555739415034
showing that the Conservatives are the party of the ‘have-nots’ while the Liberals are the party of those with yachts.
I’ve not seen a poll for Greenland, but here’s one for Canada:
Not as broken down as I’d like but Alberta is the most ‘yes’ (19%); and Canada-wide, men are more yes (19%) than women (7%) .
https://leger360.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Report-OMNI-CAN-16811-123-51st-state.pdf
If only Alberta ‘white males’ under age 55, or under 35, were polled, I wonder if the ‘yes’ might not be as high as c 40%.
