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If you guys want a delicious little case, look up People v. Hochberg some time.

Long story short: a Democrat assemblyman seeks out a local labor leader who he suspects will run against him in his re-election bid. The labor guy has no such intent. But the assemblyman, to prevent his primary opposition, offers him a lucrative legislative job plus campaign contributions for a future bid once the assemblyman moves on to a higher office.

Seems like a normal and fairly innocuous bribery bit. But the assemblyman fails to consider the labor dude is a radical communist. The labor guy tape records all the bribes, turns in the tapes, and testifies against the assemblyman in court. The assemblyman's only defense was that this was concocted by the labor guy because h e was a "militant communist" trying to topple the US political system.

 

did he sit in court and say "yep i am but still tho"

 

@Dominick what do you say to charges that "The State and Revolution" was at worst insincere and at best simply contrary to the actions Lenin took after gaining power re: shutting down of the provisional government and the constituent assembly, the latter of which would've given power to Soviet Councils that would've opposed the Bolsheviks; disallowing worker's strikes; centralizing the red army; de-democratizing bureaucratic positions; the whole general consolidation of power in the party thing. I mean, I understand the arguments of protecting the revolution from internal opposition and civil war and invasion but it's hard to accept that for two reasons, them being that some of his actions in consolidating power exasperated internal tensions and that in the end, his actions look a lot more like "What Is To Be Done?" than "The State and Revolution," which makes arguments for necessity kind of suspect.

And you know, how legitimate is the revolution as such when "unquestioning submission to a single will is absolutely necessary."

 

do we allow memes in this thread

 

The Nature of Capitalism | Jacobin

Highly recommend reading anything by Andreas Malm. Do want to fully read (a journal article in Historical Materialism covers a good chunk of it) Fossil Capitalism once my thesis is done.

 

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Not sure if this is necessarily the right thread, but have any of you read any Eugene genovese?

 

I've only read folk that use him as a source. They tend to be good.

 

Alright, cool. Gotta write an essay on one of his books for my history class. Glad to know it shouldn't be a slog

 

Haymarket books is having a 50% off sale on all of their books.

anything particularly indispensable i should check out?

 

I posted a link to the New England event the other day in Gen Pol, but this should probably be posted here as well. This weekend, ISO is holding Marxism Day Schools across the country with some cool workshop sessions.

www.internationalsocialist.org/2016-Fall-Marxism-Day-Schools

 

skimmed it and didn't see anything I recognized as super essential, I do wanna check out the one on Gracchus Babeuf, proto-communist. François-Noël Babeuf - Wikipedia I'm sure there are tons and tons of great ones in there

 

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying is crucial.

 

Alexandra Kollontai Dom said I'm like her , maybe u should read it :)
Sexuality and Socialism this one is not in stock but looks interesting

 

yes i was bummed sexuality and socialism wasn't in, it immediately grabbed my interest

 

Maybe this thread will get more active now

 

BURN EVERYTHING TO THE FUCKING GROUND

 

Little did conservatives expect that their loosening of gun control laws would make a socialist revolution that much easier

 

yeah so can people help me hook up in philly with anarcho/socialist groups?

 

welp sign me up, what does a beginner start

 

Good question, man. Iunno. Check the OP of this thread and the whole thing really...read as much as possible...join an affinity group...whatever u can do. Encourage u to be active more than anything this morning

 

got a lot of reading to do

 

seems like there are multiple, multiple socialist parties in this country. any literature on the differences between the bunch?

 

Some friends and I are trying to start an organization in our town's DIY punk community center. Aside from just donations, what more can we do?

 

Agitprop. Stickers and flyers and organizing stuff...even super minor stuff. Build connections, talk about stuff. How to set up an anti-fascist group