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The Coming Battle

The Tea Party Nativists and the Working Class

Draft Theses for the XXII Plenum of the C.C. of the Communist League

Members, supporters, friends and readers are encouraged to submit comments on these draft theses for consideration by the C.C. The deadline for submissions is April 3.

1. The rise of corporatism — the liquidation of the bourgeois-democratic content of state institutions; the replacement of law-making by deliberative legislation with law-making by judicial fiat; the merger of the public powers (the capitalist state) with private powers (corporate private security, mercenaries, etc.); the rise of the corporate welfare state as the underwriter and guarantor of credit, speculation and capital accumulation; the fundamental shift in the focus of the political government, from the arbiter of rights to the arbiter of “law and order,” and its seeming rise above the bourgeoisie and proletariat, on the backs of the petty-bourgeois bureaucracy, judiciary, military and police — has opened the door to a period of profound political and social crisis in the United States not seen since the secession crisis of the late 1850s and early 1860s.

The Value and Role of Organization

Recently, some old friends started coming back in contact with us. The rekindling of old friendships and comradely bonds is always a positive thing, even when they are accompanied by disagreement over this or that issue. In our case, it is over the role of organization.

For a long time, our friends labored to build and grow an organization, only to have many of the same problems that besiege other groups happen to them. In the end, it has left our friends questioning the entire point of having a traditional kind of political organization — whether it would be better to have something less like a political organization or party, like the League or Workers Party, and more like a network or alliance of like-minded revolutionaries.

Arguing with an Idiot

On Glenn Beck, Communism and an Offer He’ll Probably Refuse

The fight for communism is centrally a political battle. It takes place not simply as a contest of strength between the organized forces of the exploiters against the organized forced of the exploited, but also as an ongoing battle over the political ideas that shape society.

Over the years, numerous commentators, pundits and assorted pseudo-intellectuals have chosen to take up the rhetorical sword against the “specter” of communism. Some have been skillful in their use of the literary and visual weapon, while others have done more damage to themselves than to us while attempting to swing such a heavy object.

The latest in this long line of media-savvy punditry to take up arms against communism is Fox News’ Glenn Beck.

Letters to the Editor

Revolutionary greetings,

I just read the article from The Communist Monthly, “Arguing with an Idiot,” and really appreciated it; I’ve heard more than enough Beck-fueled rantings from “well meaning” relatives of mine trying to show me the grave error I have made in being a public Marxist. It’s nice to be armed with the facts now to saw through the B.S.

Spartacist League Hails U.S. Army in Haiti

It is not often that we get to watch a “middle class” left group self-destruct due to its own contradictions, but we are being treated to it these days in the form of the self-described Trotskyists of the Spartacist League/U.S.

It wasn’t that long ago that the Spartacists were seen as “the Orthodox Trotskyists,” and their newspaper, Workers Vanguard, was read in increasingly wider political circles.

But that was then. Today, the Spartacists are a dwindling sect constantly in organizational retreat. Their paper has become more and more incoherent and rambling, with most of its space reserved for seemingly mandatory polemics against the International Socialist Organization.

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The Tea Party Nativists and the Working Class

Draft Theses for the XXII Plenum of the C.C. of the Communist League

On Glenn Beck, Communism and an Offer He’ll Probably Refuse

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