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This article appears thanks to “History as a Weapon.” Often this problem of anti-intellectualism comes up as a dismissal of the importance of theory.It also now takes the form of an assertion that the “way out is known” and “it is there for the taking.”  The verdict is on theoretical controversies is in, “the train [...]

LindaD writes:
“I don’t see this as nostalgia or resting on the laurels of the past, I see it as turning a living, vital, science into dogma.”
I have never viewed Marxism as “a science” — even when I was in the RCP, even after we adopted the formulation “Marxism, the science of revolution” in the early [...]

By Mike Ely
Republican Presidential front-runner John McCain recently announced that continuing the U.S. occupation of Iraq for 100 years would be “fine with me.” Such announcements are nothing less than open statements of empire — they are not about a “war on terror,” or “expansion of democracy,” but about dominating key parts of the world.
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Nando replied to a series of questions about the RCP’s newly published Constitution. Because of their length and substance, we are reposting them here. Nando uses the remarks by a poster called “Questions” as a jumping off point.
On the Why the RCP Discarded the Term “Marxism-Leninism-Maoism” in this Document
“Questions” writes:
…if, as you claim, the RCP [...]

Anon sent the following initial video reports of the May 5 police beating in Philadelphia for kasama to post. Police swarmed on three young black men in what was intitally described as a “traffic stop.” Later police claimed they were emotional over unrelated events, or that the three were “wanted” for a shooting. For more [...]

Believe it or not, it is controversial among some revolutionaries whether the Iraq War was “about oil.” In the U.S., the RCP rejected the slogan “No Blood for Oil” (would not raise it and would not discuss its great popularity in the mass antiwar marches) — suggesting that it was too misleading about the [...]

Here’s what I was told:
“They were playing MIA’s song at the “Funk the War” demo in Washington. When they were playing the song i just sent you, there was a line of cops and a group of about 200 kids around the PA in the middle of the street. Whenever the “gunshot” sounds would go [...]

Did premature debates about revoloution destroy the old SDS? Was the emergence of Maoism a wrong turn that needlessly tore the old SDS appart? was the problem that communist activists entered and divided SDS? Was “ultra-leftism” the defining problem of the 60s? Is the lesson of this to focus much more on “building the movement” [...]

This is a time when the war criminal John McCain, a man who enthusiastically participated in the mass bombing of Vietnam’s people, is relentlessly called a “war hero.” His “service to his country” is praised, over and over, by his supporters and his Democratic Party opponents alike — exposing to us all what they [...]