MarxistWorld.net CWI/SPEW split

[jondwhite]

Here is link to MarxistWorld.net CWI/SPEW split

 

http://marxistworld.net/2014/12/truth-and-rights-in-the-cwi/

 

Quote:

But in one sense there is no need for a faction. This could all be solved if the EC lifted the suspensions and opened up meaningful discussions about allowing proportionate access to the Party’s journals for all trends of opinion. But that won’t happen because there can only be one ageing sun in the EC’s sky. EC members are too frightened and too conditioned to challenge.

And while we’re at it. Why don’t we publish the NC minutes online? And the EC minutes too. Even Khruschev allowed more access to Party notes than the CWI EC does!

[ALB]

Are these the same people who have been criticising SPEW's "underconsumption" theory of crises that we've discussed here before? I say "people" but aren't there just a couple of them? In which case the word "splinter" rather than "split" comes to mind. It is true, though, that SPEW does make the mistake of espousing an underconsumption ("workers can't buy back all they produce") theory and that this is the basis of their (via TUSC) reformist programme  (increased state spending, increase workers' wages) as a way out of the crisis.

[alanjjohnstone]

i had a quick look at the website

Quote:

We remain loyal members of the CWI but are opposed in principle to the un-Marxist position taken by leading members of the party, particularly on central aspects of Marxist theory and practice. Our aim is win back the CWI to a Marxist position on these key questions.

Just why do they bother staying?Links to their economic position…far too long and tedious for me to read…seems as if they are proponents of the Declining Rate of Profit theoryhttp://marxistworld.net/2013/09/what-is-the-cause-of-the-current-capitalist-crisis/http://marxistworld.net/2013/11/in-defence-of-marxs-law-of-the-tendency-of-the-rate-of-profit-to-fall/

[jondwhite]

updates on thishttp://marxistworld.net/2015/09/another-resignation-from-socialist-partycwi/http://marxistworld.net/2015/11/split-from-the-socialist-partycwi-and-where-we-stand/

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