State & Confusion

Publication of Marxist criticism. Theory adequate to the present moment. State & Confusion on Substack.

[State & Confusion @State_And_Conf]

“Inherited forms applied to conditions they were not built for do not become adequate through the sincerity of their application.”

Part I of a new 15-part series on a new, full-spectrum account of revolutionary strategy and organisation.

Read below 👇

[Partisan Magazine @PartisanMag1917]

What is a sect? What historical processes have given rise to this organisational form? How can we overcome it? @EwanBen addresses the questions for State & Confusion.

https://t.co/4S2jXLazNz

[Democratic Socialists @DemSocs]

Come and join us for a discussion with our friend @EwanBen tomorrow evening at 7pm. He's been churning out work left right and centre, like these theses for @PartisanMag1917 but also on his Substack @State_And_Conf. Check both of them out

[Partisan Magazine @PartisanMag1917]

Partisan and its siblings are gossip rags, says the sectarian left. But, Max J counters, what Partisan aims to do is far above gossip: it aims to do journalism.

https://t.co/xCv0RZSxjP

[Daniel ☆ @daniel_moi97111]

Mass Strategy: the model left party and the partyist road to left unity in Britain https://t.co/IaIHWQ1b8v

[Democratic Socialists @DemSocs]

Where does the left go from here after the de-facto implosion of Your Party?🌹

Join us online Wed 3 June, 7pm to discuss building the socialist party the working class needs.

Intro by @EwanBen, followed by open debate.

🎟️ Free ticket: https://t.co/uYnXOmzudL

[Partisan Magazine @PartisanMag1917]

Ewan Tilley summarises the orientation of the organic party towards internationalism, electoral work, fraction work, and the development of cadres.

https://t.co/3wmhXUimAe

[Cosmonaut ☭ @CosmonautMag]

Ewan Tilley (@EwanBen) argues that Theryn Arnold's theory of "socialist state form" fails to answer core questions of class determination and therefore cannot provide adequate political answers regarding the People's Republic of China today. https://t.co/Cps7dMaoCO

[State & Confusion @State_And_Conf]

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[State & Confusion @State_And_Conf]

“Inherited forms applied to conditions they were not built for do not become adequate through the sincerity of their application.”

Part I of a new 15-part series on a new, full-spectrum account of revolutionary strategy and organisation.

Read below 👇

[State & Confusion @State_And_Conf]

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That is not a criticism of Olding’s document. It is a description of the state of the left. The conjunctural mapping is more developed than the compositional analysis. Until that inverts, programme floats above the class it is supposed to express.

[State & Confusion @State_And_Conf]

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Partisan Magazine has published Brunhilda Olding’s (@Revmira_1921) report to the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity. One of the most serious conjunctural analyses of the world situation from the Anglophone left in some time. Read it. https://t.co/BrJEgO7tpn

[State & Confusion @State_And_Conf]

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The document maps the conjuncture seriously. What it doesn’t do is descend from the conjuncture into the class. The gap between world-situation analysis and organisational task is exactly where composition analysis lives. That work remains to be done.