[Marxism] "The Activist": Jason Schulman on Kautsky and Revolutionary Strategy

[Tom Cod]

which kind of sidesteps his covering for ruling class attacks, right-wing and liberal, on the Bolshevik revolution under the guise of marxist orthodoxy; a neo-con like routine that certain sectarian groups later in the same spirit incorporated-or co-opted-Bolsehvik or Old Bolshevik ostensible traditions into, which in turn, like Marx, was turned into a hallowed, but basically harmless, iconic tradition, like Washington or Lincoln, good for "revolutionary" speechifying on May Day etc., why real marxists aren' t that bad etc.

Thus we had ostensible ultra-left marxists of a certain stripe belittling the Sandinista Revolution as a tyranny over the Nicaraguan people, a phony psuedo-leftist outfit etc that oppressed national minorities at a point when Reagan and Jeane Kirkpatrick were making the same arguments. "Kautksyism" pure and simple: caving into right wing bourgois public opinion under the guise of Marxist orthodoxy.  Good 'Ol Karl Kautsky, right up there with that fraud Woodrow Wilson in defending "freedom and democracy" from absolutist tyranny of either the traditional or modern stripe embodied by that evil machinator Lenin.  bullshit!  Moreover, the present situation shows that the capitalists are simply unwilling, if not incapabale-and have been determined on this since the days of Reagan-of granting the concessions that formed the basis for the supposed gravy train of pre-WW1 Germany or of post-World War 2 US, for example, GM being the most current example.


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