Helen A

Helen A was intended to be a caricature of then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Hancock stated that she “hate[d] Mrs Thatcher with a deep and venomous passion”. In 2010, Sylvester McCoy told the Sunday Times: “Our feeling was that Margaret Thatcher was far more terrifying than any monster the Doctor had encountered”. The Doctor’s calls on the drones to down their tools and revolt was intended as a reference to the 1984-1985 miners’ strike.
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The MST politics are democratic socialist revolutionary, understood from the centrality of class as a motor of history. Rather than describing itself as “Marxist”, it prefers the term “Dialectical Materialist”, feeling the term “Marxist” to have been narrowed by history to represent a single set of views on socialism and class-based revolutionary struggle.

As a multi-tendency organization, with a culture of debate and ideological discussion, there are people within its membership and leadership who visualize themselves as anarchistsAnti-Revisionistscommunistsdemocratic socialistsMaoistsrevolutionary socialistssyndicalists, and Trotskyists.

What they do have in common is a commitment to revolutionary action, and to worker’s self-emancipation, which leads to a belief that differences in opinion are a positive feature in a revolutionary organization.”

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  Where are we going, Walt Whitman?  The doors close in a hour.
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To my knowledge, Lenin never asked people to become Bolsheviks on the basis of how they understood the Jacobins.

anticapitalist:

I’ve been reading a lot more non-tumblr blogs lately and it’s refreshing.

Tumblr is an echo-chamber of every perspective

ie: most tumblr libertarians sound the same, most tumblr socialists sound the same, etc…

People on the internet give many more varied and interesting points of view. 

I highly recommend reading mostly non-tumblr blogs.

I’d start with the list that’s on the bottom right of Crookedtimber. By clicking more links on each site you’ll find even more cool blogs.

Tumblr is totally an echo chamber. Reminds me of the LJ days, but short-form makes the politics even lazier.

In case anyone cares about my recs:

  • Kasama Project, while flawed, is a very interesting effort at communist regroupment and refoundation
  • Lenin’s Tomb is  another good commie blog from a different angle (Cliffie rather than Maoist)
  • The two non-tumblr blogs I mod are Beyond Marriage and  Workers Party (NZ)  (second one needs a serious overhaul)
Any revolution will not be a purely proletarian affair; it will not be solely and clearly be a conflict between Capitalism and the Working Class. A revolution is a swirling grey affair, populated with clashing strata from all across the framework of society. Within that confusion many other ideologies will inhabit the same space as our revolutionary Marxism. At that 
point when the heat is on, we can’t be spending our time educating our 
newfound allies, we need to have done the work beforehand, it is too late to 
be trying to collect our hand when the hand needs to be played
Tactical flexibility without strategic firmness creates this danger, and its ultimate consequence is reformism and revisionism. It is manifested in the form of ‘fighting to negotiate’, not ‘negotiating to fight’. But, there is other danger too, which you did not mention in your letter. It is: strategy becoming tactics, in other words, having no tactics, or politics eating up policies. To say this in another way, it is strategic firmness without tactical flexibility, of which the end result is dogmato-sectarianism.