It’s essential for Marxists–and anyone on the Left–to firmly grasp the lessons of Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism and how those lessons relate to our the tasks of party building, mass work, and advancing the struggle for social and economic justice overall. In this article, I’ll discuss some of the relevance of the work to our times.
The job of a revolutionary is to help make the revolution. In order to do this, we need to make more revolutionaries. Our party was formed with the understanding that the objective conditions are ripe for a revival of socialism. But only socialists can build socialism; it will not spontaneously arise. And socialism can only come about with a revolutionary overthrow of the current social order.
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Nicely summarized.
ReplyDeleteYour experience in Vietnam is also resonant with the theme, though personal contact with communist tyranny far exceeds the philosophical glancing blows both are very educational.
And what is it about communists that imparts the far-away stare and elevated stance? Mao, the miserable fuck Stalin, the miserable fuck hussein obbamma and any collection of academic lefties all affect the same uplifted chin and distant gaze. My reaction is to find the chip on their shoulder and put it where it will do some good.
My reaction is to find the chip on their shoulder and put it where it will do some good.
DeleteI shall cheer you on!