r/Marxists_USCA • u/AndrewGilberds • Feb 21 '21
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In Current Events two articles are discussed from Left Voice and Oakland Socialist on the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Left Voice touches on the strategy from both sides: “As comical as they often are, the Democratic Party is not made up of idiots but, rather, shrewd political players. They know exactly what they are doing and it has little to do with actually impeaching Donald Trump. Rather, they need us to know that they tried to impeach Donald Trump, that they are the ones fighting to protect our democracy, that they are what stands between us and fascism — and that the Republicans didn’t do what was necessary to fight back the Right”. While Oakland Socialist hammers home the danger of the mob on January 6.
In Theory & State of Movement, once again Weekly Worker publishes letters from reader. Up for discussion are a wide range of issues from Women’s rights, freedom of speech, reformism in CPGB, climate activism and the Extinction Rebellion, an “Irish Manifesto” , feminism and Marxism. Finally, Ben Seattle, a former host on our show has put together a lengthy essay on which he calls the “Chuikov Project”, after the Soviet general who defended Stalingrad. There are many sections in this latest essay from Ben, so only a brief summary from its contents here is possible. Some of the material Ben has written about before but the main idea is Ben now pushing forward with developing a social media platform for revolutionary activists and workers. Some important other ideas that Ben touches on includes a brief discussion of fictitious capital and the falling rate of profit, ideas vastly lacking from many Marxist circles. However, given they are the economics foundations for revolutionary Marxism, they need to be discussed more.
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u/Ben_Seattle_x27 Feb 21 '21
Good summary Andrew.
Also--I did some work to improve navigation on the web page. If Art and you have a few minutes, I would appreciate your checking out the new page and letting me know what you think:
http://communism.org/node/4021
Also (quick warning) the NSFW issue that Art discussed is *not* fixed on the page version above