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The concept from the river to the seas can be applied to the USA, and in this time the slogan is from the river, to the sea and to the space, but wishful thinking or parrot talking is different to reality,
The world hegemonic decline of the USA did not start a few days ago, and it can be stopped by one individual. World market is the one that will make that decision,
There is another empire known as China who also wants to conquer the whole world, even more Mao Tse Tung wrote: When the tiger comes late to diner, the tiger wants to eat more than anybody else, and the Chinese empire is aggressive too. it is known that every new empire finds the world carved by another empires, and that creates confrontations and international frictions, therefore, the USA is not the long ranger anymore as they believe, and a multi polar world has always existed
World World Two showed that the only way to remove a world competitor is thru a war, but in that time the USA was an industrial powerful nation, able to produce and reproduce, and controlled many natural resources around the world, and it was not internally attacked by anybody else, time has changed and China is also a powerful industrial nation which possesses intercontinental missiles like the USA and Russia, and controls many natural resources around the whole world too
Joe Biden has discovered that the USA is controlled, or it is going to be controlled by an oligarchy, but it is nothing new , it has existed since the foundation of the USA, and most of the founders were members of the class, the problem is that the old false illusions can not be covered anymore, it is more open now, and they can not hide it any longer. Russia is not the only country in the whole world that is controlled and governed by an oligarchy. The so called founder fathers of the USA did not believe in the rules of the majority
This Marxist Leninist group call itself Marxist but they do not understand that the means of production belong to the capitalist class, and that workers only own their labor force, the Communist Manifesto clearly says that the workers do not have any country. Greenlanders do not own any land, it is similar to the case of the Falkland island, it does not belong to the Argentinian workers. They never learn, and continue propagating false conceptions
This is another article on the so called national debt:
“The Left Communists and their fellow travellers are like a third rate version of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, prophesying the “end is near”
The spgb would then be the church of England: “Don’t worry, one day everyone will believe” without the need for any struggle.
….obviously this is inaccurate and needlessly offensive but perhaps it is as true as your anti-left-communist nonsense…
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We should listen to the point of view of others organizations. That is one of the reason why the SPGB has been called sectarian by others groups, and we should try to bring more organizations to this forum and peoples from other nations and treat them properly . I do publish articles from other organizations including the CCI. I think I am going to attend this meeting
This is Peter Hudis book on the Alternative to capitalism
There is a critiques on this book made by Socialist Studies.( Pdf download )
I think Adam Buick book on the Alternative to capitalism is more objective
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg
I do not hink Lenin was ambivalent, he was never a socialist/communist, Without Lenin, the Soviet Union and his followers socialism/communism would have been in a much better stand. I do not think that Marx was a Hegelian thru all his life either, I might say as CLR James: There is nothing for us on Hegel. The only thing that I care about Marx and Engel was that their were real socialist/communist, and we should have their class consciousness, and we do not need to worship them, and it is not a question of academia, or for intellectuals, or having PHD to understand them, and both made mistakes like any human beings, and Engels dedicated his life and his personal resources to propagate Marx ideas and socialism.
Kevin Anderson
Probably, I am out of topic, but I am going to answer the question briefly
News and letters committee is an organization original founded by Raya Dunayeskaya, and Peter Hudis was one of her personal secretary, and he was an Organizer along with Olga Domansky
They had difference in regard to Raya Dunayeskaya concept of organization and philosophy, the trustee of her works, and financing of the organization. Olga stayed in News and Letters committee
Peter Hudis and Kilman formed a new group known as Marxist Humanist Initiative, and later on they had differences too and Kilman continued
directing the organization and Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson formed International Marxist Humanist organizationsBasically these are their differences:
An Open Letter to Members of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
I did not say that Luxembourg said that , I have added the two wrong conceptions into one message
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Henryk Grossmann was the first Marxist economist that proposed a theory of crisis based on the Marxian law of the falling rate of profit due to the increasing organic composition of capital. This view, while initially disappointingly minotirarian, has become very popular nowadays
within Marxist Political Economy.
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Rosa Luxemburg’s theory of capitalist collapse is the idea that capitalism is unsustainable and will eventually collapse due to its own contradictions. She believed that a revolution was necessary to transform capitalism into socialism.
Explanation
Social Reform or Revolution
In her 1899 pamphlet, Social Reform or Revolution?, Luxemburg argued that capitalism’s inner contradictions would lead to its collapse. She believed that trade unions and reformist political parties could not create a socialist society.
The Accumulation of Capital
In her 1913 book, The Accumulation of Capital, Luxemburg argued that capitalism’s constant expansion through trade with non-capitalist countries was necessary. She believed that once this expansion was no longer possible, capitalism would collapse.
The inevitability of collapse
Luxemburg believed that capitalism’s destructiveness would herald its defeat. She believed that the working class would eventually revolt against the rule of capital.There is a large division among members or groups of the US ruling class
Rosa Luxembourg tried to blame the problem on Engels by saying that probably, he changed everything on Volume 2 and 3 of Das Capital.
Engels published those two volumes because the daughter of Marx asked him to do that, and he was one of the few person able to understand Marx handwriting and Marx was a very disorganized person, but Engels was a very organized writer
He published exactly what was written on the manuscripts, he did not alter anything, the problem is that Rosa Luxembourg was mistaken and trying to question Marx she created more problems for herself, and it has been proven that the collapse theory is completely wrong and the main cause of the capitalist crisis is not the fall of the rate of profits, it is overproduction
Frantz Mehring who is one of the best biographers of Marx said that Engels was completely faithful to everything that Marx wrote including his unfinished works. Engels has been the scapegoat on many distortions made on Marx theory
Anyway, this is why decomposition is linked to phenomenon like Trump. The naked idiocy, amoralism and nihilism as well as the decline in the ability of any bourgeois faction to put forward anything like a coherent plan are all an expression of this underlying crisis of capitalism which can not do anything but get worse over time.
————————————————————————————Right wing populism is a world phenomenon and Trump is not the only one. I have seen some places where the whole left has been wiped out completely by the workers and they have elected and selected backward, and reactionary right wing candidates, they do not even care about the immoral characters of the candidates, in traditional terms they can be called lumpens, and crooks, and they have forgotten about everything honestly done in the past by others political groups. This reality is also affecting the minds of the workers
The communist manifesto said it very clearly that the development of capitalism was going to produce all those changes in our society
There are three groups of Marxist Humanists, and there are some differences among them, and the most active one is the International Marxist Humanist Organization
The one who made more emphasis on the concept of Trumpism is the Marxist Humanist Initiative.
Their definition of Fascism/Nazism is the same one propagated by the Leninists and the Trotskyists.
They do not see fascism/nazism as a particular form adopted by the German and Italian capitalists in order to administer capitalism.
It is the same old idea that all right wings governments and presidential candidates are fascists or Neo fascists, which is totally incorrect, on the contrary, the left has paved the way for the emerge of the right wingers, and Argentina is the best example. All leftwing reforms have failed
I do not think this particular group asked workers to vote for Kamala Harris.
Having academic knowledge, or academia, is not a guarantee for clear understanding of socialism,
I have seen many simple workers who have had a much better understanding and have dedicated their entire life to the cause of socialism
Trump’s War Against Immigrants in Political and Historical Perspective
Trump’s War Against Immigrants in Political and Historical Perspective
The extent to which the second Trump administration presents us with a reality most people in this country have never fathomed, let alone experienced, is nowhere more evident than in his impending wholesale assault on the rights of immigrants.
Drastically reducing the numbers of those with temporary or permanent residency while deporting as many undocumented as possible is the signature issue that has defined Trump’s trajectory since he entered politics. He and his allies have been planning for years to enact an assortment of policies to help “make America white again,” and there is every indication they will hit the ground running. They are prepared to implement their agenda, and must we prepared to resist it.
Trump’s second term will not be like the first, when his effort to take a sledgehammer to immigration by ending DACA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Family Preference Visas (mistakenly termed “chain migration”), and reducing asylum claims to close to zero were limited or blocked by the courts. This is not only due to him having a six to three majority on the Supreme Court (with many Circuit and Appellant judges as his appointees) but because restrictive immigration policies today have much more popular support than in 2017. This is a major reason he won not just the electoral college but the popular vote—aided by Harris’s studied refusal to sharply distinguish herself from his anti-immigrant position.
The struggle in the First International was between the follower of Bukanin and the Marxists that is the reason why the concept of Marxism was created by Engels and some of Marx followers. The SPGB has an article calling Bakunin a proto Leninist
https://www.marxists.org/subject/marxmyths/maximilien-rubel/article.htm
Where did Marx obtain the concept of a stateles and moneyless society, and the concept of according to their needs ? It was from the anarchists,
The followers of Proudhon avodcated for the same economic principles of the US economist Henry George which is based on the possession of the land, it is an agrarian conception similar to the Russian populists
Anarchism is older than Marx and Engels, and Europe was not the only place where Anarchism emerged. The concept of socialism/communism is older than Marx and Engels too
There were also anarchist movement in Latin American in the 1800 and the anarchists in Cuba had more influences within the working class rank than the Marxists and the Leninist
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel-cappelletti-anarchism-in-latin-americaAs well in the Arabs world there were materialist philosophers. Europe is not the only place in the world where advanced political, philosophical ideas emerged
The socialist party wrote a pamphlet indicating that most of the concepts expressed by Marx and Engels in the communist manifesto already existed within the working class, and we have also indicated that the manifesto was a German manifesto and the manifesto contains certain state capitalists and reformists
clausesBefore the Paris Commune Marx and Engels had blanquist conception and Engels participated in certain armed revolts, and also they had conceptions similar to the Mensheviks.
The ethnological book of Marx shows that there were conceptual differences between Marx and Engels
I have not read the book yet, but he is not the only one who have presented those ideas, and it was also discussed when we had the Yahoo groups forum, the problem is that the Leninists are using that conception in order to justify the workers state and that Marx supported the existence of a republic, but they are based on what Engels expressed that the democratic republic was much better for the development of socialists ideas within a capitalist society
I understand that when they were very young, both ( Marx and Engels ) they were petty bourgeois liberals and they were influenced by bourgeois conceptions, and then when they obtained more political maturity, and after the Commune of Paris they changed several of their old conceptions and abandoned some of their blanquist stand and opt for workers participating in the capitalist limited democracy, which the Leninists call bourgeois democracy
Personally, I think they were more influenced by the French Anarchists in order to become socialists and many of their conceptions came from the French Anarchists, for me, the communist manifesto is not a communist document, it was revolutionary during their time but several of the concepts expressed in that documents were abandoned by them, and still there are many so called marxists who have not moved away further than the communist manifesto
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/marx-communist-republicanism-historical-context. How Karl Marx became a
communist. I think Marx and Engels became communist when the came into contact with the Anarchistshttps://www.marxists.org/archive/rubel/1973/marx-anarchism.htm
The Internationalist Perspective, the internationalists tendency, and the International Communists Currents are left communists and Leninists but sometimes they write good articles, and they have taken correct stands on several world issues, I would not reject them completely and sometimes I have seen them supporting some of our point of view
He has done the same thing that has been done by the Marxist humanists and the followers of Raya Dunayeskaya by dividing Marx into the Young Marx when he was a so called Hegelian and then the matured Marx who became a humanist, or Lenin who also became two personalities, one before 1914 and another person after 1914 when he was done research on the betrayal of the second international and he started to read Hegel Science of Logic.
I prefer to visualize Marx and Engels when they were politically inmature and then they became more matured when they started to be influenced by external political and economic events,
