On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 08:27 AM, John Reimann wrote: > > John Edmundnson justifies the "Marxists" doing nothing to oppose/warn > against or organize against Trump
Of course, that's not the issue. Comrade Edmundson among others has warned, agitated, opposed Trump. Reimann has his knickers all bunched up because Edmundson and others did not ENDORSE the bourgeoisie's candidates, Biden and Harris. To Mr. Twisted Knickers Reimann not endorsing one wing of the bourgeoisie vs the other is intolerable. > > He/they should read a little history, going back to the 1917 Russian > Revolution. Remember that little event? Remember the attempted coup by > Kornilov? > > The twisted knickers interpretation of history is inaccurate. At no point did the soviets endorse the actions of the provisional government. On the contrary, even, particularly, at that critical moment, independent class action was the priority so much so that no order of the PG was acted upon w/o approval of the soviet representative. > > have that attitude should read a little about the Spanish Civil War. Every > socialist worthy of even half that name supported the Republicans. > > Not true. Trotsky did not support the various iterations of the Republican governments. Neither did certain anarchist-socialist organizations. Twisted Knickers is either ignorant of the very history he reference, or deliberately distorts it. There's a difference between supporting a revolution and the government of a class that is empowered to contain and end that revolution. > > The point is that whatever degree of repression Trump/Musk introduce, it > will be far, far harder for workers and the oppressed to organize. > > Nope, that's not the point of contention. The point is whether endorsing the other wing of the bourgeoisie by Marxists, sacrificing any pretense at class struggle, is an effective tactic for resistance. Does anybody think that if all those communist groups and individuals who opted for opposition to both parties had changed positions and offered to endorse Biden/Harris. it would have changed the election results? Advice to JR: 1. reread the history you think you understand 2. try going knickerless -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34996): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34996 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111004330/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
