Comrade Martin

Thanks for the add, sorry I have not been on in forever.

The problem with RS2K's politics is that he, like Dunayevskaya, have anti-party and anti-movement politics. They, like most on the left, fail to realize that genuine political parties and genuine political movements are identical. The SPD model goes against the spontaneist notion of "let's not organize until the revolutionary period," since when that period comes, key elements of the masses might think the spontaneous emergence of some revolutionary group is attempting to con them on the road to power.

"Left Leninist" was a term I found in an article taking about "American Leninism in the 1970s," which considered basically all groups that came out of the (or into) the Leninist tradition and were to the left of the CPUSA as "left Leninist." Considering my politics have ventured further from the semi-orthodox Trotskyism that they were at a couple years ago, it's probably not as good of a descriptor as it used to be.

Recently, I've been reading up on the "Kautsky revival" that some people are pushing, like Lars Lih and Mike Macnair (as well as some folks on RevLeft, to a degree.) With that in mind, I still consider myself a Leninist in a sense, in that Lenin was trying to adapt the organisational tactics used by the SPD to Russian conditions, as opposed to the quasi-myth of the "party of a new type."

Long time no see Martin

HEY BROTHER!
I see what they done to you.
HEY BROTHER!
Can you see what they done to me, too?
Nowhere to turn and we got nothing to lose,
But you can count on me if I can count on you. IT'S TRUE!

Hey brother, all we've got's each other
In a world of shit, y'know they made us suffer!
Hey brother, all they let us have is each other
SO LET'S FUCK SOCIETY UP!