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Communist Sectary, Anglo-gothic, 30y/o

[js @g73835283]

The city Salt Lake City reminds me the most of is Shenzhen

[js @g73835283]

@CoreyLeander Given your avoidance of the issue you seem to operating under the opposite illusion. Marx is just a guy, not an angel or devil. Engaging critically with his ideas won't harm you

[js @g73835283]

The Plague of people whose understanding of the TRPF begins and ends with a misunderstanding of the name continues unabated...

[Corey @CoreyLeander]

@g73835283 Always just a misunderstanding of definitions. Clearly!

[js @g73835283]

Who is George Lassalle!?

[js @g73835283]

The Plague of people whose understanding of the TRPF begins and ends with a misunderstanding of the name continues unabated...

[Brian Callaci @brian_callaci]

I have trouble understanding how "long downturn," "tendency of the rate of the rate of profit to fall," or really any falling profit theories holds still have adherents

[js @g73835283]

This is a new one for me on Negri

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@ANNVYSHINSKY That would explain why I dislike it so much

[js @g73835283]

Is Wyoming the only state without a DSA chapter? If so why? I know Idaho and Montana have chapters

[js @g73835283]

@caskalecom That's why they have the exam 😉

[NaijaMarxist @NaijaMarxist]

Critical theorists like Bonefeld/Rooke and co have the same criticisms of Trotsky as Marxist humanists like Names/Dunayevskaya.

Trotsky failed to differentiate between property/social relations in analysing ussr.

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@namonaai (apart from point 10, which of course I fully agree with)

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@namonaai This is the "programme" on the RCPs website, all are vague demands either openly reformist or open to reformist interpretations. If someone is interested in communism and comes across this programme arent they going to come away with a very mistaken idea of what communism is?

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@Cogitoergosum05 @weathermachyns That's interesting but not reallly relevant to communist politics. I certainly don't feel compelled to put my trust in the RCP cadres because of that

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@Comrade_Lavas @weathermachyns amongst many trotskyists and leftists that was the position yes. I havent read that piece but he certainly wasn't alone in predicting a return to crisis. Paul Mattick, a council communist wrote about this as well at the time for instance.

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@namonaai But is someone who agrees with transitional demands a communist? They are things which are supposed to be possible within capitalism, and therefore defenitionally reformist. I think part of the problem with the RCP is that they are too loose with who they claim to be a communist

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@ztrition720 @weathermachyns compared to other trotskyists I can see the novelty. From a leftcommunist perspective this was all obvious or of marginal significance