Thread on the harmful Gonzaloite trend whose US section has recently collapsed leaving only a flurry of embarrassing twaddle to stand in for a serious summation of errors
Gonzaloism adds up to so many deviations from our class thought: the path of revolution is a matter of ideology; a bureaucratic bourgeoisie can be industrial; the Party must always be militarized; we must subject ourselves to the personal leadership/command of a Great Leader; etc
Socialists in Kautsky's time saw the anti-Semitic movement as "a product of the desperate struggle of declining strata”. Can this view help to shed light on instances of racist violence in our own time? Yes, although not entirely by their likeness: also by their dissimilarity.
In “The Kishinev Massacre and the Jewish Question” (1903), Karl Kautsky writes about the class character of Western European anti-Semitism, defining its social basis as the petty bourgeoisie in decline and a part of the intelligentsia. (1/18)
In the absence of a revolutionary party which can scientifically explain the grievances of the petty bourgeoisie, and struggles to transform the content of their spiritual lives,