(from: http://z11.invisionfree.com/Kasama_T...showtopic=1097 )

Hi David,

I have been following your exchange with Mike Ely with great interest.

You asked the most basic question of "what is to be done?" In particular, you asked if Kasama is working to create a revolutionary party. If not, then you indicate you believe you should be working in this direction with comrades in your local area.

Mike replied that the experience...

I am sometimes active on the Kasama "threads" forum (unlike the main part of the Kasama site, the blog, where I will not post until Mike Ely withdraws his threat to permanently ban me from the Kasama community). Since the Kasama community is important, it may be useful to have a place where I can "log" the threads on Kasama where I am active. So I will use this post as that place. (I will also continue to post, as separate entries, my Kasama posts which may be more significant.)...

I believe it is useful for revolutionary activists to post, each year, a summary of their activity over the past year and plans for the coming year.

Capitalist corporations give a public annual report to stockholders every year. Our...

Ben replies to Frank and SAIC supporters:
It’s time to break the invisible leash
Will Serve the Movement?

Mass Democracy and Decisive Clarification
vs. the Control-Freak Model of Organization


guided by mass democracy and based
on the real needs of the movement?

...

Our ruling class, the bourgeoisie, assures us, with a confident tone and a million trusted voices that, if we overthrow the capitalist system, and leave the familiar boundaries of our known world, we will inevitably plunge into a dismal, police-state world of repression and poverty--like China or the former Soviet Union.

This belief so saturates our society (even the thinking of political activists) that...