SWP Will Never be Heroes of Socialism
Bill Bore | 08.02.2002 17:58
Referring to recent postings, if the SWP insist on using their numbers to 'swamp' the socialist movement as a whole, they can expect a verbal 'bashing' on this site!
Any party which parades the words Worker, Socialism, Marx, Trotsky, Lenin, what-have-you, should make sure they know what it entails. But they dont. In fact, they're a feeble recurrence of other turncoat parties who refused to live up to the promises of 1848 (Marxs Manifesto) and will end up in the footnotes of history, of only interest to students who want to study a particular specialist part of history: "Decline of International Marxism 1970-2000" or something).
Non-Marxists may not know it, but the SWP repudiate Marx and others on several points.
The 1848 Manifesto as referred to above, is dismissed as being only for the artisans of the time, say the SWP. Really ? So Why did Trotsky reaffirm it in its entirity in 1938 then ?
Marxs theory of "Aristocracy of Labor" is laughed away as arcane and irrelevant. If so, how do they explain that the tendency for workers to identitfy with and emulate the ruling class is a well-confirmed phenomenon, which Marx detected at its very inception.
Why do people visting at SWP meetings get laughed at if they talk about say, Hegel, or Trotsky's Permanent Revolution Theory ? Why do SWP members talk less about revolution and prefer to go on about Trades Unions and the NHS ? Why are there Christians in the SWP for that matter? How come none of them seem to read any of the key texts of Marxism ?
No, they deserve the criticism. Theyre useless and a threat to the movement, for by associating with 'Old Labour', they create a leak straight to Millbank and thus to the Establishment itself. Why dont they ask to move in ? I just feel sorry for the ones who joined in all sincerity, and who will end up like ex- moonies once they've become disillusioned.
Non-Marxists may not know it, but the SWP repudiate Marx and others on several points.
The 1848 Manifesto as referred to above, is dismissed as being only for the artisans of the time, say the SWP. Really ? So Why did Trotsky reaffirm it in its entirity in 1938 then ?
Marxs theory of "Aristocracy of Labor" is laughed away as arcane and irrelevant. If so, how do they explain that the tendency for workers to identitfy with and emulate the ruling class is a well-confirmed phenomenon, which Marx detected at its very inception.
Why do people visting at SWP meetings get laughed at if they talk about say, Hegel, or Trotsky's Permanent Revolution Theory ? Why do SWP members talk less about revolution and prefer to go on about Trades Unions and the NHS ? Why are there Christians in the SWP for that matter? How come none of them seem to read any of the key texts of Marxism ?
No, they deserve the criticism. Theyre useless and a threat to the movement, for by associating with 'Old Labour', they create a leak straight to Millbank and thus to the Establishment itself. Why dont they ask to move in ? I just feel sorry for the ones who joined in all sincerity, and who will end up like ex- moonies once they've become disillusioned.
Bill Bore
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