tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579189847356587096.post3275011854758584422..comments2024-02-14T11:30:29.227-08:00Comments on Facts For Working People: Trump and the Judges: The enemy dividedRichard Mellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00997976754939725087noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579189847356587096.post-17485063181067508212017-02-14T08:26:26.257-08:002017-02-14T08:26:26.257-08:00Richard another excellent article. Thank you. Than...Richard another excellent article. Thank you. Thank you also Comrade De Leon for your very helpful comments. I feel we have a lot of agreement. I particularly agree with your last statement where you write"I share your optimism for this period and hope the left can use it to regroup while playing a greater role in the various movements. At the same time my enthusiasm is tempered by long experience." We in Facts for Working People are paying particular attention to this. Trying to see how we can develop a non sectarian revolutionary current in the working class. We have some ideas on this which i would like to share with you. And will when i get the resources put these on the Blog. Our statement which is on the Blog on the women's march movement gives an idea of how we see things: Advocate for a mass Alliance, a mass United Front against the Trump agenda and within this build a non sectarian revolutionary current. To perhaps paraphrase yourself, this is easier said than done. But to refer to Trotsky the crisis of humanity is the crisis of the proletarian leadership. We have no alternative but to try to do this. Sean O'Torain. Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07802923167159509214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579189847356587096.post-90113011332364206122017-02-13T09:11:27.673-08:002017-02-13T09:11:27.673-08:00you quote Lenin's warning: We have to be on o...you quote Lenin's warning: We have to be on our guard, and Lenin pointed out during the summer of 1917, ‘We must be especially attentive and careful, so as not to be drawn into a provocation...one wrong move on our part can wreck everything...’ and add "Perhaps the Black Bloc can benefit from that advice." you also state that the "resistance will not go away". <br /><br />the Bolsheviks did in fact have such a moment during the July 1917 demonstrations. Lenin went into hiding. Trotsky was jailed for a period of time by the provisional government. it wasn't fatal. the Bolsheviks recovered and carried out the defense of Petrograd and then the October (November) Revolution.<br /><br />you begin the article by noting that the bourgeoisie can make adjustments and recover their equilibrium. they did so after Nixon's Vietnam escalations. the mass demonstrations evaporated once the particular irritant (the Vietnam War) was removed. <br /><br />if the planned demonstrations have the effect of removing Trump from office (a possibility i dearly hope for), the flagrant irritant will be removed and for a period of time we'll have a right wing equilibrium. <br /><br />the left has yet to develop a following in the organized working class--i don't give much credence to the Labor Notes' low level economism...sorry. less than 10% of workers in the USnA are unionized. the left has more resonance in movements against the Dakota Pipeline, the fight for 15, immigrant rights and Black Lives Matters. <br /><br />you and others on the socialist/ communist left are correct to point to the power of the working class in general and, hopefully, in the future this class will act for-itself as opposed to being a mostly inert (or worse) class in-itself. that will happen (i think) when the movements of the oppressed and less privileged layers of the working class population are championed by unions with socialist/ communist leaderships. with some notable exceptions, we're not seeing that...yet.<br /><br />i've enjoyed the articles posted by Facts for Working People and hope my comments are taken in the comradely sense that i intend. i share your optimism for this period and hope the left can use it to regroup while playing a greater role in the various movements. at the same time, my enthusiasm is tempered by long experience.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05550476607090397935noreply@blogger.com