We believe that the radical possibilities of total liberation from authority are far more transformative and intoxicating than any steps to a revolution as prescribed by any so-called revolutionary chairman. Take their stance on Arizona as an example, one of their demands “No more troops! Demilitarize the border!”, this is not only a conservative stance amongst revolutionaries, but it shows that once again the people are ahead of their revolutionary “leaders.” The RCP, like many on the left, are afraid to state the obvious, that millions of people have already disregarded the legitimacy of the border line, they have to move across it every day, regardless of the law. Further more, by solely opposing the militarization of the borderlands they join in a colonial tradition that attacks the indigenous people of these occupied lands, as tribes are indeed separated by the border wall. By holding the legitimacy of the state over those of the individuals and communities struggling to preserve their ways of life, the RCP become de facto ideological enforcers of the border.
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Naturally, being PCWC, we will of course offer further explanation. It is our firm commitment that the left — especially the authoritarian left — is in fact an impediment to revolutionary struggle. After all, it’s always they who swoop in at the last minute and save capitalism. Or who impose bureaucratized state capitalism. Or who sell out the wildcats. Or who imprison the militants. Or who argue for the popular front. Or who build the labor camps. None of which takes us a centimeter closer to the revolution that the RCP’s creepy leader, American ex-pat Bob Avakian, claims to want in his Left Bank pontifications. On the same note, we always believed that the one good thing Arizona had going for it was no left to speak of and a strong libertarian bent amongst the right.
Since learning the true nature of these left fascist bastards, you can imagine our frustration at the massive flood of them that has followed the celebrity of SB1070. One parasitic leftist operation from out of town after another has parachuted into the Valley of the Sun and proceeded to lecture the locals on who we should be working with and why, to seek to impose their myopic, petty and narrow view of our conditions and struggle, and to generally make a nuisance of themselves, trampling over legitimate local projects and organizing in the process.
Aside from cynically masquerading as a grassroots effort, like the astroturf, right-wing media and lobbyist owned and operated ‘Tea Parties’, the New York City-based Bailout the People organization is using the occasion of the G-20 summit to solicit donations (to supplement their trust funds established by socialites and the KGB) and engage in a form of a tactic that is common among, but not restricted to, the authoritarian left, known as “entryism”, where an existing struggle or organization is willfully, and often deceptively hijacked by members of an outside organization. Another WWP front-group, that is better known, is International ANSWER, which discredited and demoralized the opponents of the escalation of the long-running US war in Iraq, through its ineffective, permitted, protest parades, its thinly veiled authoritarian politics, its insistence on taking credit for the mobilizations and protests of others, and its continued cooperation with law enforcement. This is no different than what the paper-selling, authoritarian-left alphabet soup has done to discredit and derail popular resistance and grassroots organizations for the past 100 years, with special malice reserved for anarchists, who they tend to shoot in the back the back, both figuratively and literally, whenever possible. This is why people like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, among others, were publishing condemnations of Lenin and Trotsky’s violent excesses, 40-50 years before US liberals would accept that that the ‘Worker’s Paradise’ of the USSR was merely another dictatorship. What began in Petrograd, continued to Kronstadt, the Ukraine, the Barcelona May Days, Hungary, and the collusion with the de Gaulle regime, which preserved his (and their) power.
Given their long-standing policy of uncritical support for any dictator or war criminal willing to stick a red star on a national flag and/or taunt the US government, including the dynastic North Korean regime, Slobodan Milosevic, and longtime US asset, Saddam Hussein, how sincere can the Workers’ World Party (WWP) in its opposition to the G-20? The WWP split from the Trotskyist Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) due to the latter’s condemnation of Stalin’s 1956 invasion of Hungary and subsequently fell in behind any tyrant willing to use leftist rhetoric as a justification for their brand of repression and imperialism. No apologists for the 1989 actions of the Maoist state in Tienanmen Square are worthy of the level of trust and solidarity required for sincere opposition the G-20, who counts the WWP’s beloved state capitalist China, among its member nations.
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A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
