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FROM 1968 TO 2024, IT'S NOT THE POLITICS OF JOY, IT'S THE DAMN WARS CANADIAN JOURNALIST OUTS HIMSELF AS CANADIAN, UKRAINIAN INTELLIGENCE COLLABORATOR CRAIG MURRAY ON RICHARD MEDHURST AND THE RIGHT TO ARMED RESISTANCE 5 HIGHLY OMINOUS NEOCON ADMISSIONS UKRAINE'S WAR ON THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PREPARATIONS FOR THE WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST FASCISM ARE PROGRESSING CONGRESSIONAL FARCE A LOOK AT VENEZUELA WITH ALAN MACLEOD JOSEF STALIN ON THE LABOUR PARTY AND NATO THE U.S. COUP IN BANGLADESH AMERICA'S HOLLOW DOLLAR EMPIRE LABOUR GETS READY TO IMPLEMENT THE "LIZ TRUSS" (JEREMY CORBYN) LOCK 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back FROM 1968 TO 2024, IT'S NOT THE POLITICS OF JOY, IT'S THE DAMN WARS Eric Arnow Sep 7, 2024 It’s the Damned Wars, that the Politicians Keep Paying for. Senator Lindsay Graham says the US should attack Iran’s energy resources. He forgets that Iran could block the flow of oil out of the Persia Gulf, sending the world economy into collapse We no longer have adults with any kind of wisdom sitting in positions of power in Washington, DC. We’ve got emotional children and that’s exactly what Lindsey Graham is he’s he’s a child he’s old enough to know better but certainly …. I guess wants to embrace ignorance as his mantle —-Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. The Politics of Joy, Then and Now The two Democratic Party conventions, that of 1968, and now, 2024 have ended. I attended the 1968 convention–well, that is, I was in a park just across the street from the convention hall, probably 200 yards away. I’d supported the first peace candidate, Gene McCarthy of Minnesota, whose position opposing the Vietnam War was clearer than Robert F. Kennedy, who jumped in late but was assassinated the night of his victory in the California Primary, which would have insured his nomination and probable win. Anyway, I got my first real lesson in American democracy, as I watched the police beat the crap out of the demonstrators in front. I was lucky. I was no where near the violence. Instead of Gene McCarthy, whose stand on peace in Vietnam marked him as an outlier and marginalized him, the Party Big Wigs muscled Hubert Humphrey, the Vice President into the nomination basically abandoning the primary election process.Humphrey wasn’t a ‘bad guy’. He was a strong supporter of civil rights, and working class interests. But he was strongly anti communist and despite his misgivings about the Vietnam War, he showed his loyalty to LBJ, who had decided not to run again, mainly due to massive demonstrations and pressure from the anti Vietnam War peace movement. As the saying went at the time, “Hey Hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?”….Now we hear cries about “Genocide Joe Biden”. And Kamala has stated she’s fully on board with his agenda…just like Humphrey was with LBJ. When Hubert Humphrey didn’t have a leg to stand on given his support of the indefensible Vietnam War campaigned on “The Politics of Joy”…When you can’t campaign based on evidence and logic, appeal to emotion. Several Commentators Have Noticed the Parallels Several observers of US politics have noticed the similarities between then and now. This mainstream website gives a sympathetic view of Humphrey’s career, and is worth noting. If it hadn’t been for the war, I might have been willing to vote for him. millercenter.org Hubert H. Humphrey | Miller Center This article points out how the “Old Left” started cracking with the “New Left” comprised mainly of students questioning many of the assumptions of the “Party of FDR”. When President Johnson declined to run for another term in 1968, Humphrey won the Democratic Party’s nomination. His campaign got off to a tumultuous start with the infamous 1968 Democratic Convention. Humphrey’s attempts at unity and references to the “Politics of Joy” seemed wholly out of touch with the riots and protests going on outside. However, Norman Solomon, a well regarded journalist and a ‘real Leftist’ as distinct from the fake identity politics Left which is used by the Democrats to weaken the real base, which is favorable to peace and ‘Bernie Sanders style’ Socialism, explains how Humphrey’s unwillingness to take on the War Machine undermined his campaign, resulting in his defeat. www.americanexperiment.org The tragedy of Hubert Humphrey Why the 'Happy Warrior' would find no perch among today's progressives. The convention nominated him while, outside, tear gas filled the air during what a report from a special federal commission later called a police riot that meted out violence to antiwar demonstrators as well as some journalists. Inside the turbulent convention, dissenting delegates were outshouted, outvoted and suppressed by the pro-Humphrey forces.The chaos and bitterness in Chicago underscored how the vice president’s deference to the war president had weakened the party while undermining the chances for victory. In polls, Humphrey trailed the Republican candidate Richard Nixon by double digits. scheerpost.com The Ghost of Hubert Humphrey Is Stalking Kamala Harris The history of how Vice President Humphrey navigated the political terrain of the war in Vietnam has ominous parallels with how Vice President Harris has been dealing with the war in Gaza. Kamala Harris and Her “Politics of Joy” Vice President Harris is in a similar position to Hubert Humphrey. But there is a significant difference. Humphrey did have a record of promoting legislation that was favorable to Labor and the working class, as well as promoting civil rights legislation. Harris, on the other hand, has a short record in the Senate, a stained record as Attorney General, who showed a lack of empathy for workers and especially people of color in her policies regarding prisoners. What she has in common with Humphrey was, what I’d call “studied ebullience”. She loves laughing and her acceptance speech at the convention was long on “the Politics of Joy” while short on substance. Norman Solomon noted: Last week, Harris described herself and running-mate Tim Walz as “joyful warriors.” Many outlets have heralded their joyride along the campaign trail. The Associated Press reported that “Harris is pushing joy.” A New York Times headline proclaimed that “joy is fueling her campaign.” The brand of the Harris campaign is fast becoming “the politics of joy.”Such branding will be a sharp contrast to the outcries from thousands of protesters in Chicago outside the Democratic National Convention next week, as they denounce U.S. complicity with the methodical killing of so many children, women and other civilians in Gaza.Campaigning for joy while supporting horrendous warfare is nothing new. Fifty-six years before Vice President Harris called herself a “joyful warrior,” Vice President Humphrey declared that he stood for the “politics of joy” when announcing his run for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. On the other hand she shares a common trait of politicians–saying one thing to appeal to one audience, while implying quite the opposite to AIPAC, the big bucks people. This clip came from an obscure website I found shared in a post in a private group. I think it says a lot about her ‘crocodile tears for Palestine’, while ensuring that the bombs keep dropping. When Kamala Harris doesn’t have a leg to stand on given her support of the indefensible Ukraine and Palestinian War, she campaigns on “The Politics of Joy”…When you can’t campaign based on evidence and logic, appeal to emotion. Here she is appealing to one audience’s emotions one way and her ‘real supporters’ she appeals to them with different emotion….Rank psychological manipulation worthy of a sociopath. In Defense of Both Trump and Harris Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the Trump rally with what many (even avowed Leftists) said was the best speech in years. He said that if Trump were elected, he would work within that adminstration to turn the disastrous state of health of the American people, by making sure that health, diet, exercise and focus on prevention replace the for profit system in place now. I agree with that. Kamala Harris, in a recent speech addressed the housing crisis and the high cost of housing. She said she would work to build millions of new affordable housing units. Both of these issues are important, and all things being equal and disregarding their respective records, one could make a case to vote for either one. So, What Have We the People Learned Since 1968? The problem is that politicians of both parties have promoted both the Ukraine War and war with Russia and a future war with China, as well as the current genocidal war against Palestine, which has been ongoing, in fact, since the 1948 war of terror on the Palestinians, which drove 700,000 out of their homes, many into Gaza, where they’ve been under constant attack, creating ‘the world’s largest outdoor prison’….and now the world’s largest out door death camp. Both parties have with short exceptions for tactical purposes, been bent on world Hegemony, ever since the end of WWII. In fact, Andre Martyanov, a Russian American citizen and military expert recently pointed out that the US has been at war against Russia since WWII. Conclusion The reason why those of you who hate Russia do so, is because Russia now and the USSR then represented the resistance to US relentless drive to dominate the world. Hubert Humphrey intuitively understood that the Vietnam War was wrong. But he lacked the courage to oppose it, for his own political purposes. Kamala Harris weeps crocodile tears for Palestinians, but understands that her loyalty to AIPAC and Israel ‘trumps’ her sentiments about the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. And the American people, for the most part, shove the issue of America’s constant wars of conquest, slaughter and stealing resources of other countries, under the rug, because they are bought off by promises of economic benefits that rarely get met. It’s NOT The Economy, or the Fake Joy, Stupid..It’s the Damned Wars! That’s what YOU need to demand to stop. Stop the Damned Wars! Please consider spreading consciousness by visiting my stores Peace and Enlightenment Store Peace and Enlightenment Shop Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

APARTHEID ISRAEL TARGETING GAZA AND WEST BANK SIMULTANEOUSLY: UN EXPERT EGYPT CONDEMNS THE ATTEMPTS OF ISRAEL TO CONVERT THE MOSQUE OF AL-AQSA IN A SYNAGOGUE REPUBLICANS KILL CIVILIANS FOR BAD GUY REASONS, DEMOCRATS KILL CIVILIANS FOR NICE GUY REASONS WAR IS ON OUR SIDE AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST CHARGED WITH "ANTISEMITISM" FOR TWO RETWEETS ABOUT ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA ISRAEL BUYING GOOGLE ADS TO DISCREDIT UNRWA: REPORT US/NATO ATTACKED KURSK TO TAKE PRESSURE OFF LOSING BATTLE IN PALESTINE AMERICAN LOGIC ABOUT GEORGIA EXPOSED HOW THE US PLANS TO TAKE DOWN IRAN ISRAEL DECLARES PANIC-INDUCED EMERGENCY STATE AFTER HEZBOLLAH STRIKES DEMOCRATS RELEASE INSANELY HAWKISH MIDDLE EAST POLICY PLATFORM HEALTH SITUATION WORSENS IN GAZA 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back FROM 1968 TO 2024, IT'S NOT THE POLITICS OF JOY, IT'S THE DAMN WARS Eric Arnow Sep 7, 2024 It’s the Damned Wars, that the Politicians Keep Paying for. Senator Lindsay Graham says the US should attack Iran’s energy resources. He forgets that Iran could block the flow of oil out of the Persia Gulf, sending the world economy into collapse We no longer have adults with any kind of wisdom sitting in positions of power in Washington, DC. We’ve got emotional children and that’s exactly what Lindsey Graham is he’s he’s a child he’s old enough to know better but certainly …. I guess wants to embrace ignorance as his mantle —-Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. The Politics of Joy, Then and Now The two Democratic Party conventions, that of 1968, and now, 2024 have ended. I attended the 1968 convention–well, that is, I was in a park just across the street from the convention hall, probably 200 yards away. I’d supported the first peace candidate, Gene McCarthy of Minnesota, whose position opposing the Vietnam War was clearer than Robert F. Kennedy, who jumped in late but was assassinated the night of his victory in the California Primary, which would have insured his nomination and probable win. Anyway, I got my first real lesson in American democracy, as I watched the police beat the crap out of the demonstrators in front. I was lucky. I was no where near the violence. Instead of Gene McCarthy, whose stand on peace in Vietnam marked him as an outlier and marginalized him, the Party Big Wigs muscled Hubert Humphrey, the Vice President into the nomination basically abandoning the primary election process.Humphrey wasn’t a ‘bad guy’. He was a strong supporter of civil rights, and working class interests. But he was strongly anti communist and despite his misgivings about the Vietnam War, he showed his loyalty to LBJ, who had decided not to run again, mainly due to massive demonstrations and pressure from the anti Vietnam War peace movement. As the saying went at the time, “Hey Hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?”….Now we hear cries about “Genocide Joe Biden”. And Kamala has stated she’s fully on board with his agenda…just like Humphrey was with LBJ. When Hubert Humphrey didn’t have a leg to stand on given his support of the indefensible Vietnam War campaigned on “The Politics of Joy”…When you can’t campaign based on evidence and logic, appeal to emotion. Several Commentators Have Noticed the Parallels Several observers of US politics have noticed the similarities between then and now. This mainstream website gives a sympathetic view of Humphrey’s career, and is worth noting. If it hadn’t been for the war, I might have been willing to vote for him. millercenter.org Hubert H. Humphrey | Miller Center This article points out how the “Old Left” started cracking with the “New Left” comprised mainly of students questioning many of the assumptions of the “Party of FDR”. When President Johnson declined to run for another term in 1968, Humphrey won the Democratic Party’s nomination. His campaign got off to a tumultuous start with the infamous 1968 Democratic Convention. Humphrey’s attempts at unity and references to the “Politics of Joy” seemed wholly out of touch with the riots and protests going on outside. However, Norman Solomon, a well regarded journalist and a ‘real Leftist’ as distinct from the fake identity politics Left which is used by the Democrats to weaken the real base, which is favorable to peace and ‘Bernie Sanders style’ Socialism, explains how Humphrey’s unwillingness to take on the War Machine undermined his campaign, resulting in his defeat. www.americanexperiment.org The tragedy of Hubert Humphrey Why the 'Happy Warrior' would find no perch among today's progressives. The convention nominated him while, outside, tear gas filled the air during what a report from a special federal commission later called a police riot that meted out violence to antiwar demonstrators as well as some journalists. Inside the turbulent convention, dissenting delegates were outshouted, outvoted and suppressed by the pro-Humphrey forces.The chaos and bitterness in Chicago underscored how the vice president’s deference to the war president had weakened the party while undermining the chances for victory. In polls, Humphrey trailed the Republican candidate Richard Nixon by double digits. scheerpost.com The Ghost of Hubert Humphrey Is Stalking Kamala Harris The history of how Vice President Humphrey navigated the political terrain of the war in Vietnam has ominous parallels with how Vice President Harris has been dealing with the war in Gaza. Kamala Harris and Her “Politics of Joy” Vice President Harris is in a similar position to Hubert Humphrey. But there is a significant difference. Humphrey did have a record of promoting legislation that was favorable to Labor and the working class, as well as promoting civil rights legislation. Harris, on the other hand, has a short record in the Senate, a stained record as Attorney General, who showed a lack of empathy for workers and especially people of color in her policies regarding prisoners. What she has in common with Humphrey was, what I’d call “studied ebullience”. She loves laughing and her acceptance speech at the convention was long on “the Politics of Joy” while short on substance. Norman Solomon noted: Last week, Harris described herself and running-mate Tim Walz as “joyful warriors.” Many outlets have heralded their joyride along the campaign trail. The Associated Press reported that “Harris is pushing joy.” A New York Times headline proclaimed that “joy is fueling her campaign.” The brand of the Harris campaign is fast becoming “the politics of joy.”Such branding will be a sharp contrast to the outcries from thousands of protesters in Chicago outside the Democratic National Convention next week, as they denounce U.S. complicity with the methodical killing of so many children, women and other civilians in Gaza.Campaigning for joy while supporting horrendous warfare is nothing new. Fifty-six years before Vice President Harris called herself a “joyful warrior,” Vice President Humphrey declared that he stood for the “politics of joy” when announcing his run for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. On the other hand she shares a common trait of politicians–saying one thing to appeal to one audience, while implying quite the opposite to AIPAC, the big bucks people. This clip came from an obscure website I found shared in a post in a private group. I think it says a lot about her ‘crocodile tears for Palestine’, while ensuring that the bombs keep dropping. When Kamala Harris doesn’t have a leg to stand on given her support of the indefensible Ukraine and Palestinian War, she campaigns on “The Politics of Joy”…When you can’t campaign based on evidence and logic, appeal to emotion. Here she is appealing to one audience’s emotions one way and her ‘real supporters’ she appeals to them with different emotion….Rank psychological manipulation worthy of a sociopath. In Defense of Both Trump and Harris Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the Trump rally with what many (even avowed Leftists) said was the best speech in years. He said that if Trump were elected, he would work within that adminstration to turn the disastrous state of health of the American people, by making sure that health, diet, exercise and focus on prevention replace the for profit system in place now. I agree with that. Kamala Harris, in a recent speech addressed the housing crisis and the high cost of housing. She said she would work to build millions of new affordable housing units. Both of these issues are important, and all things being equal and disregarding their respective records, one could make a case to vote for either one. So, What Have We the People Learned Since 1968? The problem is that politicians of both parties have promoted both the Ukraine War and war with Russia and a future war with China, as well as the current genocidal war against Palestine, which has been ongoing, in fact, since the 1948 war of terror on the Palestinians, which drove 700,000 out of their homes, many into Gaza, where they’ve been under constant attack, creating ‘the world’s largest outdoor prison’….and now the world’s largest out door death camp. Both parties have with short exceptions for tactical purposes, been bent on world Hegemony, ever since the end of WWII. In fact, Andre Martyanov, a Russian American citizen and military expert recently pointed out that the US has been at war against Russia since WWII. Conclusion The reason why those of you who hate Russia do so, is because Russia now and the USSR then represented the resistance to US relentless drive to dominate the world. Hubert Humphrey intuitively understood that the Vietnam War was wrong. But he lacked the courage to oppose it, for his own political purposes. Kamala Harris weeps crocodile tears for Palestinians, but understands that her loyalty to AIPAC and Israel ‘trumps’ her sentiments about the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. And the American people, for the most part, shove the issue of America’s constant wars of conquest, slaughter and stealing resources of other countries, under the rug, because they are bought off by promises of economic benefits that rarely get met. It’s NOT The Economy, or the Fake Joy, Stupid..It’s the Damned Wars! That’s what YOU need to demand to stop. Stop the Damned Wars! Please consider spreading consciousness by visiting my stores Peace and Enlightenment Store Peace and Enlightenment Shop Previous Next

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FROM 1968 TO 2024, IT'S NOT THE POLITICS OF JOY, IT'S THE DAMN WARS THE DIALECTICS OF UNITY AND THE LEFT HOW IS THE US CONVINCING THE PHILIPPINES TO DESTROY ITSELF PREPARATIONS FOR THE WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST FASCISM ARE PROGRESSING CRAIG MURRAY ON RICHARD MEDHURST AND THE RIGHT TO ARMED RESISTANCE THE AFD AND THE "FAR RIGHT" IN GERMANY A LOOK AT VENEZUELA WITH ALAN MACLEOD IMPERIALISM: PARASITIC, DECADENT, AND DOOMED -- GARLAND NIXON & JOTI BRAR, EP 20 JOSEF STALIN ON THE LABOUR PARTY AND NATO UKRAINE - WHY IS THERE NO REVOLT? NOAH'S SHOW | CALL IN LIVE CONGRESSIONAL FARCE AMERICA'S HOLLOW DOLLAR EMPIRE RULES BASED REPRESSION - THE GRAYZONE LIVE UKRAINE'S WAR ON THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CANADIAN JOURNALIST OUTS HIMSELF AS CANADIAN, UKRAINIAN INTELLIGENCE COLLABORATOR APARTHEID ISRAEL TARGETING GAZA AND WEST BANK SIMULTANEOUSLY: UN EXPERT THE U.S. COUP IN BANGLADESH DOES SOCIALISM WORK? - CHICAGO CONFERENCE 5 HIGHLY OMINOUS NEOCON ADMISSIONS 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back IMPERIALISM: PARASITIC, DECADENT, AND DOOMED -- GARLAND NIXON & JOTI BRAR, EP 20 Garland Nixon with Joti Brar of CPGB-ML Sep 7, 2024 Joti Brar speaks with Garland Nixon about how the deep economic crisis of capitalism is driving governments in the west to extreme measures to try to restore profitability. Through ever deeper austerity, incitements to racism (scapegoating), an accelerating drive to war, and through the most draconian repression to try to criminalize and silence all acts of dissent. They talk about how the cracks are showing in the system and how workers are losing faith in its institutions. And they talk about the role of the enemy within – those individuals and organisations who work hard to try to keep people hoping there's some way to reform, manage or persuade our way out of the contradictions of capitalism. https://thecommunists.org/ Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! http://www.thecommunists.org http://www.lalkar.org http://www.redyouth.org Telegram: https://t.me/thecommunists Twitter: https://twitter.com/cpgbml Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/proletarianradio Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/theCommunists Odysee: https://odysee.com/@proletariantv:2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cpgbml Online Shop: https://shop.thecommunists.org/ Education Program: Each one teach one! https://londonworker.org/education-programme/ Join the struggle! https://www.thecommunists.org/join/ Donate: https://www.thecommunists.org/donate/ Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

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< Back THE DIALECTICS OF UNITY AND THE LEFT Midwestern Marx Institute - Carlos L. Garrido Sep 5, 2024 In societies fractured by class antagonisms, the ruling elite who control the means of production, and hence, the politics, judicature, education, etc. of society, requires that those whom they extract value from, indebt, and oppress, split themselves into as many groups as possible. For the ruling classes, the principle of divide et impera , divide and rule/conquer, has always been necessary. In factionalizing the propertyless masses they win. This is why Marx calls racism “the secret through which the ruling class maintains its power.” [1] A similar sentiment is admitted to in James Madison’s Federalist 10. When writing to the owners of capital in his time, he promises that a faction across the lines of the property question could be avoided only insofar as more factionalism is promoted amongst those without property. [2]​ It is clear that to challenge this division of the people imposed by the elites, unity of the people is necessary. Kwame Nkrumah emphasizes that since balkanization is a pivotal tool in the imperialist’s struggle to keep Africa divided, weak, and subjugated, African unity is the only way to combat it. [3] Likewise, the anti-colonial Cuban philosopher and poet, José Martí, urges that for Latin America to defend itself from U.S. imperialism, it must be united. Divided they will fall. Using the European folklore of the giant of the Seven-league boots to represent U.S. imperialism, Martí writes that “The trees must form ranks to keep the giant with seven-league boots from passing! It is the time of mobilization, of marching together, and we must go forward in close ranks, like silver in the veins of the Andes.” [4] But not all unity is of the same character. Not all unity serves to undermine the division imposed upon the people by the ruling class. The unity of working people artificially divided by the ruling class is one thing; unity of various “leftists” is a whole different affair. The former undermines the division the ruling class imposes on the masses, the latter often intensifies it under the auspices of uniting. We must recall what Lenin long ago taught us: “Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists , not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.” [5] Lenin urged us to always ask: “unity with whom?” [6] One undermines the cause of uniting the people when unity includes those who, in their very political practice, promote division. Unity with a purity fetish left, which consistently treads in petty-bourgeois moralizing, identity politics, and cancel culture, can only serve the cause of division and factionalism. [7] A left for whom large swaths of workers are far too ‘impure’ to organize will only ever undermine the class struggle and serve the interests of the ruling elite. It is sufficient to look at the million ‘new’ organizations and parties that pop up left and right, seemingly out of nowhere, to conclude that something about this so-called “left” is rotten. Irrespective of whatever “radical” veneer they might put on their politics, they are not only fully compatible with the dominant order, but an indispensable component of it. A left that requires a checklist of positions workers must hold with regards to issues of gender, sexuality, national history, or whatever else, will only ever end up preaching to the choir… a choir that will get smaller and smaller as the people in those spaces who are more serious about the class struggle leave. Unity, therefore, cannot be accepted as an abstraction. It must always be examined concretely. Unity of whom? Towards what ends? With what results? In what context? These are the questions we must ask. Class collaborationist unity with the imperialist bourgeoisie, clearly, is not the unity that will advance the class struggle. Unity with “leftists” who base their politics on a monastery-like purity of ideas, and who shun all those who don’t measure up to such purity, can likewise only hinder the class struggle. As the young Karl Liebknecht wrote, "Not all unity means strength. Unity between fire and water puts the fire out and causes the water to disappear as steam; unity between a wolf and a lamb results in the lamb finding itself inside the wolf; unity between the proletariat and the ruling class is to sacrifice the proletariat; unity with traitors means defeat." [8] Unity between the fire of the intensifying class struggles of the 2020s, driven by the necessity of such struggles in our period of decaying capitalist-imperialism, with the water of the old leftist dogmatists and purity fetishists, can only serve the cause of exterminating the fire, or at best preventing its spreading. If in the pas t, because of our inexperience and youth, we urged such unity, we were wrong. [9] Concrete experience has taught us that no unity can be achieved with those who, while calling themselves “leftists,” “socialists,” or “communists,” produce only division in their actual political practice. Unity with a fake, compatible, purity fetish “left” only serves the cause of division and social insularity. Clear lines must be drawn between those who are serious about the class struggle, and those who are only committed to sustaining the purity of their abstract ideas. Unity with this middle-class left, fabricated historically by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and major capitalist foundations, is akin to unity with the imperialist bourgeoisie – a hindrance at best, and betrayal at worst, of the class struggle. The unity we must secure, and which the American Communist Party has accomplished in its very act of launching, is unity between serious, actual Marxists, who propose for themselves not the task of developing the loftiest pure ideas, but of concretely advancing the class struggle. In the dialectic of unity and division, we have found, therefore, that certain forms of unity serve the cause of division, and certain forms of division serve the cause of unity. Abstractly, “unity” and “division” are devoid of content; empty causes in whose ambiguity can serve both sides of the class struggle. Dividing serious Marxists from the ruling class and their “leftist” agents is indispensable for the task of united working people and fighting for socialism. This does not mean, however, that there is something ontologically wrong with the individuals that find themselves in these divisive “leftist” spaces. For many, these are the only areas they have found “dissident” politics to be present. This is not unintentional; the ruling order needs this to be the areas where dissenting young people go to. What we condemn, therefore, are not individuals. Many of them, if they’re serious about the class struggle, will in time end up on the right side. It is the fundamentally divisive politics of the middle class “left,” a politics indispensable for the ruling system keeping working people away from socialism with a ten-foot pole, that we condemn. As my colleague, Eddie Liger Smith, recently said: “for those people who do nothing but deride, attack, and smear us, guess what? The door will always be open. We’ll be here building when you get over your purity fetish and decide to come help us change this social system into one that actually serves the people.” [10] Citations [1] Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Ireland and the Irish Question (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970), 407-408. [2] James Madison, “ The Federalist Number 10, [22 November] 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0178 . [Original source: The Papers of James Madison , vol. 10, 27 May 1787–3 March 1788 , ed. Robert A. Rutland, Charles F. Hobson, William M. E. Rachal, and Frederika J. Teute. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977, pp. 263–270.] [3] Kwame Nkrumah, Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (London: Panal Books, 2004), xiii. [4] José Martí J, “Tres Héroes,” In Páginas Escogidas , ed. Óscar Montoya (Bogotá: Editorial Norma, 1994), 41. [5] V. I. Lenin, Collected Works Vol. 20 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977), 232. [6] Ibid. [7] See Carlos L. Garrido, The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism (Dubuque: Midwestern Marx Publishing Press, 2023). [8] Karl Liebknecht, “The New ‘Civil Peace,’” In The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1986), 84. [9] I am here being self-critical of my younger writings, when I was still too naïve about the effectiveness of “leftist” unity in the U.S., although I nonetheless still emphasized, rightly, the centrality of class unity and economic organization. See, for instance, this passage from 2020: “The American left focuses the majority of its efforts in pursuit of electoral victories without the prior existence of organization among class lines. Until the irrational divisions of socialist parties and organizations in the US unite and focus their energies on workplace organization as the necessary predecessor to the electoral struggle, we will continue to face futility in the political sphere.” Carlos L. Garrido, “Revolutionizing in America the Hope Bolivia Has Given Us,” Midwestern Marx Institute (October 20, 2020): https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/revolutionizing-in-america-the-hope-bolivia-has-given-us-by-carlos-l-garrido [10] Edward Liger Smith, “Speech at the Institute for a Free America,” Midwestern Marx Institute YouTube (May 28, 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOT1HwOwZ-I Republished from www.midwesternmarx.com with thanks Previous Next