West Chester, PA - On March 4, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) hosted a workshop titled “Socialism 101: Students, Socialism & The Revolution” at West... Chester University of Pennsylvania. The workshop included an introduction to socialist theory, followed by discussion on applying socialist theory to the student movement.
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"It is a bit odd to receive such a lecture from an organization whose own analysis has left their membership flat-footed and confused in the face of major international crises of the last few years, and which recently discredited itself by publishing an article that referred to the ranks of Jabbat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda) as “decent revolutionaries” who are “just going where the money and arms are.” One might hope for an article full of retractions and self-criticisms, but sadly t...his one was not.
"They argued instead that the “two main weaknesses that have long plagued the U.S. antiwar movement” are 1) liberal organizations, such as United for Peace and Justice, that have fostered illusions in U.S. imperialism, and 2) groups such as the ANSWER Coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and others who they accuse of “faux (false) anti-imperialism” for not supporting the “mass democratic revolt” in Syria. The ISO promises a “new and genuine anti-imperialism” to rescue the movement from these twin evils.
"If misleadership is the problem, one might wonder why this enlightened group, which claims to be the largest socialist group in the country, has not stepped in earlier to show us all the way? The critique reads like that of an outside observer who has just stumbled across the antiwar movement, as if the ISO has no record of its own to be reviewed and summarized. Let us refresh our memories."
Today in history: March 1, 1954 - Four Puerto Rican nationalists demanding independence for Puerto Rico - a U.S. colony still to this day - shot 30 rounds from ...semi-automatic pistols from the visitors gallery of the House of Representatives chamber in the U.S. Capitol. Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores Rodríguez - unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and began shooting. The four were captured and given long prison sentences, effectively life imprisonment. In the face of a powerful movement demanding their freedom, after decades in prison in 1978 and 1979 they were released by President Carter; they returned to Puerto Rico and were welcomed as heroes. The struggle for Puerto Rican independence continues. (image: mural in Spanish Harlem in New York honoring Lolita Lebron and the fight for Puerto Rican independence)
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Harry Haywood on Black Power and the Fight for Socialism
Althusser was right. We must wage the class struggle in the ideological terrain, the class struggle in theory.
"According to the spy agency itself, post-Marxist French theory directly contributed to the CIA’s cultural program of coaxing the left toward the right, while discrediting anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism, thereby creating an intellectual environment in which their imperial projects could be pursued unhindered by serious critical scrutiny from the intelligentsia."
I would be hard pressed to name a book with a greater impact on my thinking than either of these.
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