No oversight. Who since Hal Draper's "Marx and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat" in 1962 doesn't know that the democratic republic was the specific form of the dictatorship of the proletariat in

Putin's strategy, real or imagined, is beside the point. Russia invaded Ukraine, a former vassal state. Something he has done before in Moldova and Georgia. Breaking off a piece of Ukraine's

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 05:09 PM, <gilschaeffer82@...> wrote: democratic republic as the political form of the dictatorship of the proletariat The issue of the democratic republic as the state form of

And? Our response? Our ideology? Our program? What did other people do when faced with an authoritarian, undemocratic political regime?

I have to admit that these sort of imaginings are so utterly inept and devoid of any understanding of how the American federalist system works that it borders absurdity. At the basic core of the

I pasted in the text since the Washington Post may have a paywall. Charles In Putin's Russia, antiwar protesters face prison and abuse - The Washington Post Alexandra Skochilenko faces 10 years in

 https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/ukraines-eu-membership-comes-severe-strings-attached EditorialUkraine's EU membership comes with severe strings attached Sunday 26th Jun 2022 Ukraine

I should have added that you can't escape these ideological issues by appealing to the Soviets as the new historical form of the dictatorship of the proletariat. They never worked as democratic

Ken mistakenly believes Trotsky’s second essay entitled "Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddleheads” is in contradiction to the first one he wrote several months earlier in 1939.

Here are certain extracts from the article Ken cites that are of critical importance: The slogan of an independent Soviet Ukraine is of paramount importance for mobilizing the masses and for educating

Your replies are either truisms or historically inaccurate. 1) Of course, any "democracy" without force is no democracy at all. 2) Democracy isn't "abstracted" from class; democracy is class, i.e.,

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 03:17 PM, <gilschaeffer82@...> wrote: What's the cart and what's the horse? For more than thirty years, the ideological and political goal of the Russian Social-Democrats was

Aka, Their Oligarchs and Ours or, How Lesser Evil Promotes Greater Evil. In case the notion that the Democrats' current hopium is to run against Trumpists is somehow made up. It ain't.

My point is primarily about our ideology and publicly stated goal, not particular tactics or the current state of political affairs. Everything we can say about how bad things are in this country

Stephen Marche opines that the Rubicon has already been crossed, and that it's all over but the shooting. Of course this Canadian is promoting his novel; still, it isn't far-fetched after the

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 03:17 PM, <gilschaeffer82@...> wrote: What's the cart and what's the horse? For more than thirty years, the ideological and political goal of the Russian Social-Democrats was

I realize that not everyone will be as interested as I am in what Trotsky said more than 80 years ago. But for those who are interested, my remarks below. Slavoj Zizek is of secondary interest to me

Mark: So would it make sense to question the policy today given this change of historical conditions? ------------------------------------------------ It’s not only how far removed the working

What's the cart and what's the horse? For more than thirty years, the ideological and political goal of the Russian Social-Democrats was to establish a democratic republic, the same goal as that of

I'd caution against inferring "attitude ... on this list". (***) I will grant you there is a vocal minority of subscribers (***), with Brad at one extreme with the treason thing, taking