[Marxism] A proposal for a New Party

[Mark Lause]

Ben,

I'm responding to you publicly, as I said I would after the previous four or
five private emails from you, which entirely disabused me of any hopes I
might have had that anything real would come out of your efforts.

When you wrote that the past experience of the movement was irrelevant, you
explained to me that you are not a historical materialist.  While I don't
know what you are, I doubt you will do as you say: build a new party and
reconstruct an international....  In fact, you sound like another lot of
Bush-era Americans mentally living out of time and context...and convinced
that the world revolves around them and didn't do much of any relevance when
you weren't around to see it....

I'm pleased that, since you chose to play around with socialism a bit, you
decided to pick up some terms...like "strategy."  Tickled pink that you guys
have a copy of "Merrian Websters dictionary" on which to base your grasp of
"strategy."  After all, actually studying Marxism would mean having to
actually discuss things with people and listen to them.  Who has time for
that if you're going to remake the world before breakfast....

However, I assure you that, from a Marxist perspective, you have presented
no "strategy"...no plan of action.  And getting miffed at me because you
have no "strategy" and don't seem to be aware of what a "strategy" is won't
get you one.   Just who are you trying to convince?

Solidarity!
Mark L.

PS: If, in the course of remaking the world in your image, you need anything
more than a dictionary provides, you might try Wikipedia.  All my freshmen
use it...once...


-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Morgan [mailto:foreverblaze89 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:36 AM
To: MLause at cinci.rr.com
Subject: RE: [Marxism] A proposal for a New Party

Comrade Ben:          May I remind you that this new party is democratic so
if your waiting for explict examples of party politics as a warrant for a
strategy let me remind you that an organizational strategy must come a
priori; without it there is no political foundation. With that said a
previous post mapped out the strategy for building the organization in the
form of a network structure. This calls into question your definition of
strategy. According to Merrian Websters dictionary strategy is "a
careful plan or method for achieving an end". My analysis meets that
definition and does so while acknowleging the current structure of our
political economy. This does not mean the pass should be denied or
overlooked. Rather, the past illustrates how other left movements worked and
failed. By looking at the old strategies and the way the US defeated them we
can create a new form of organization the network. The network defeats the
counter
 insurgency because there is no central power structure.     Ben