Dégringolade

Bay Area Revolutionary Union

Listen, Marxist! by Murray Bookchin All the old crap of the thirties is coming back again--the shit about the "class line," the "role of the working class," the "trained cadres," the "vanguard party," and the "proletarian dictatorship." It's all back again, and in a more vulgarized form than ever. The Progressive Labor Party is not the only example, it is merely the worst. One smells the same shit in various offshoots of SDS, and in the Marxist and Socialist clubs on campuses, not to speak of the Trotskyist groups, the International Socialist Clubs and the Youth Against War and Fascism. In the thirties, at least it was understandable. The United States was paralyzed by a chronic economic crisis, the deepest and the longest in its history. The only living forces that seemed to be battering at the walls of capitalism were the great organizing drives of the CIO, with their dramatic sitdown strikes, their radical militancy, and their bl

One would have thought that by 2010, self-conscious of the role that bourgeois electoral politic play,  self identified 'radical leftists'  who having let themselves be caught up in the electoral web, again, by dint of yet another rhetorically gifted charlatan's belting out of siren songs, would return to this self-emasculating practice in 2012, 2016, 2020 and continue still, like a bunch of energizer bunnies, tirelessly hacking at their gonads...