[Marxism] Loren Goldner on the crisis

[S. Artesian]

None of that applies to Bordiga.

"Bordigaism" is generally characterized as eschewing all electoral and 
parliamentary efforts and agitation; as rejecting the united front as a 
viable tactic within the class.  It is also associated, although these links 
are more sympathetc, IMO, than concrete, with council communism.

Unlike Gramsci, who led the nominal Stalinist wing of the PCI, Bordiga 
defended Trotsky, and is reported to have called Stalin "gravedigger of the 
revolution"  to his face.  Talk about cojones.

Bordiga analyzed the USSR, after the triumph of Stalin, as capitalist.

And none of  Carrol's description applies to Goldner, with whom I have had 
extensive exchanges.  His analysis is based on an argument that  capital 
"peaked" as a social system, i.e. able to reproduce a social capital, a 
'developmental' social organization, in 1968, and that since that point, 
capitalism has kept itself afloat by functioning essentially as one big 
bubble, or a series of consecutive, and linked, bubbles.  Since then, the 
accumulation of capital has required social retrogression.


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