Delenda Carthago

Thanks, I didn't see that thread.

I think that since he is an economist, he has a far better understanding of the economic situation Greece is in than others may have.

How do you feel about the election of the new General Secretary of the KKE? Do you think any changes will come from it? I don't know much about him, except that he is an economist and comes from a communist family.

Do you also listen to Serj Tankian's solo records

System of a down!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ers%27_Parties

This was the International I referred to.

So far I've only begun reading the programme. I have some objections:
- The case study speaks of the abolition of Capitalist relations. I would question this, since workers still worked for a wage and under the control of bosses. Whenever workers went on strike against their boss they were met w severe repression, i.e 1953 East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 1956 Poznan, Novocherkassk 1962 etc...

Why then does KKE maintain relations with CP's who uphold this version of the DOTP? They are far in advance of the other ML parties which is why I'm dissapointed when the KKE hold International meetings and allow shit parties like the Syrian CP, the Communist Party of China, the South African CP etc...

Certainly not. As it says on the new programm(the one the congress is about) "KKE has to continuesly prove its role as the vanguard of the class". If you read it, you ll see that one of the major things that lead to the collapse of socialism, was that the workers control got weaker. So its definetly DotP not of the party.

About to read case study. Does the KKE conceive of the DOTP in the same way as the 20C ''socialist camp'', i.e exclusive rule of the Communist Party?

And yes, I do admire KKE's stand against popular fronts, crude stagism etc...

I'll have a read of the KKE study. I think it's clear for all to see that the KKE have gained theoretical clarity from their studies. However until they break with the classical ML notions of socialism I think i'd find it hard to believe they can bring about socialism, in spite of their best intentions.