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century, we have seen a process of disintegration of proletarian
politics. Genuine Marxists must engage in a process of
recomposition. Above all, the left needs a rigorous approach
to theory, an attempt to rearticulate communism as a viable
alternative to a global capitalism in terminal decline.
We call on all serious partisans of the working class
to join us in this work.
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Drip-fed capitalism
The past week has seen the spectacular collapse of giant financial institutions and unprecedented state intervention. Hillel Ticktin spoke to Peter Manson about the likely outcome. Read the article in this week's Weekly Worker here.
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Brian Keenan correspondence
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Communist University 2008
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next time. Email office@cpgb.org.uk
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Worker.
Below, the introduction by CPGB
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Revolutionary strategy - Marxism
and the challenge of left unity
The free-market triumphalism of the 1990s is over. Early
21st century capitalism looks like Karl Marx’s description:
growing extremes of wealth and poverty, and irrepressible
boom-bust cycles. But for the moment, the beneficiary
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and nationalist nostalgia politics. The political left
remains in the shadow of its disastrous failures in the
20th century.
The centre-left, insofar as it has not joined forces
with the neoliberal right, clings to nationalist and bureaucratic-statist
nostalgia for the social-democratic Cold War era. The
far left clings to the coat-tails of the centre-left.
It is barred from uniting itself - let alone anyone else
- by its unwillingness to think critically about the ideas
of the early Communist International, especially on the
‘revolutionary party’.
To get beyond these traps we need to re-examine critically
the strategic ideas of socialists since Marx and Engels’
time and their development. In this book, Mike Macnair
begins this task.
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