This is a response I made to a thread/post about the question of socialist organization and the role of Leninism. I was writing in response to an article from the Socialist Standard, the entirety of which can be found here.

I wanted to respond with my own rejection of what the authors of this article outlined regarding Lenin and the revolutionary party, but my response ended being much longer than I anticipated.
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Hey all,

So I've been considering a name change on here for some while now, but I'm being indecisive about it. What do folks think? Should I change my username? Should I keep it? Do you even care?

Hope someone chimes in, it'll be really sad if no one does.

This is the beginning of what will hopefully be a multi-entry series on the social and class composition of fascism, its role and function within capitalism, and how to fight it.
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A consensus has emerged amongst historians, scholars, and politicians regarding the historical rise of fascism, dating for our purposes from the November Revolution of 1918 to the collapse of the Third Reich on 8 May, 1945. This common interpretation of events has...

Tacit support for any one candidate amongst the left indicates, above all, a critical misevaluation of the balance of forces in Washington and the role of the left in such periods. Such support reflects on the reckless individualism displayed by such persons, who are either blind or intentionally ignorant to the systemic roots of the issue, buying into the misperception that it’s the officials themselves who dictate the ins and outs of policy - not the immediate short-termism so prevalent in financial...

The following is lifted from a post I made to a thread on reformism (http://www.revleft.com/vb/futility-e...140/index.html):

Progressive reforms, while not ideal, are of some importance. Their significance is twofold: to serve as a rallying point from which further actions may be formulated and acted out (many of which lead away from the drudgery and defeatism so prevalent in electoral politics), while serving as a barometer of public opinion. In no way is this...