A Marxist Historian

On sports and vanguardism: http://www.revleft.com/vb/coachism-a...638/index.html

Excellent post. "The CCP state is exactly as described by Trotsky with respect to the USSR, a Bonapartist affair balancing between classes, subordinate to world imperialism but ultimately dependent on the Chinese working class and peasantry for its legitimacy, so ultimately an extremely corrupt and deformed workers state."

I'm rather inclined to agree but there's a difference between Trotsky's assessment of the USSR under the Stalinist bureaucracy and the current situation, namely that in Stalin's USSR there was no bourgeoisie and in China, there's a clear bourgeoisie class. Wouldn't it be to say fair that the Chinese bureaucracy is not a "caste" or a "parasitic outgrowth" but an actual class? I actually don't know what to think, do you know anything in English written by Chinese comrades worth reading about modern China?

Thanks I'll look for them. Sounds like a pretty solid organization. For your organization you put sympathizer of the Spartacist league, is there anything in particular that has deterred you from joining?

Hey do you know what the Spartacist line on non-trotskyist mass movements such as naxalism in India or (less of a mass movement) FARC in Colombia. Even though I generally have a more position view of Stalin I checked out the Spartacist website and agreed with a lot of their positions and I'd like to know more.

TWCS: http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?...cussionid=6228

Mmmm... I'm not sure about that. "Backward" as applied to an entire people could be interpreted to mean that they are backward because they are racially inferior, not just less developed technologically and socially and so forth. It is ambiguous and open to misunderstanding.

-M.H.-

Comrade, why do you take issue with Blanquist's use of the terms "backwards people" when describing the situation of my ethnic group in the 19th century(in this thread). It's quite accurate and properly Marxist. The phrase has no connection with racism; in fact it's anti-racist. The implication is that a people is backwards because it's in a lower stage of development, consequently the people is capable of advancing, culturally and technologically. This idea is a devastating attack on racism(for how can there be inferior and superior races if all so-called "races" follow a similar line of development?).

Thoughts on revolutionary provisional governments? http://www.revleft.com/vb/revolution...083/index.html

By the way, why are you up so late? Robinson didn't have you running errands for him and the witch choir did he?

It's a middle class mass movement responding to a failure of capitalism. It hasn't gotten physical because there is no mass movement to attack. There have been some right wing nutters coming out of it that have attacked Democratic politicians physcially