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Red Papers 1: Calling for communist collectives
Intro by Mike Ely Several people asked to have this 1969 Red Papers call for communist collectives posted from — so its ideas (and our own ideas!) can be discussed in their own thread. This was a...
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One Struggle: Anti-capitalist organization as a level of unity
Kasama has received this position paper from the One Struggle collective in Florida — issued in September 2011. This initiative is highly welcome — because of the importance of pressing ahead with...
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New Zealand 1: Revolutionary work without a workers’ upsurge
“In short, our comrades assert that given the lack of a mass workers’ movement in New Zealand today, communist party-building is futile…. “It is clearly true that the Workers Party does not currently...
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How one Communist organizational model got universalized
Zinoviev's rules: a universalized party form for all countries and all moments was finalized during the campaign called "Bolshevization" The following post combines includes a few excerpts from an...
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New Zealand 4: Questioning fixed sect-like models
Zinoviev's rules: a universalized party form for all countries and all moments “I don’t believe in “Leninism” as it is usually understood today – or what Louis Proyect more accurately refers to as...
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Comintern’s democratic centralism: A previous conception
The Comintern decided that all communist organizations in the world should have the same name, the same structure, the same organizational principles and the same approach to controversies. To...
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Democracy and centralism? Yes, sure, but….
The ideas of the rank-and-file are more than just raw material for leadership decision-making. Democracy involves elements of real power and ongoing accountability. by Mike Ely How should communists...
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Unsettled questions of communist organization
by Mike Ely Chegitz writes: “…no form of organization is immune from degenerating into something awful.” And he gives the example of the collapse of the Socialist Party (which he has been part of) —...
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Unity and struggle: How a communist core formed in Tsarist Russia
The 1897 founding of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. How should communists be organized? What are appropriate formation for action, debate and consolidation — in the...
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Preparing to rule Greece: Seeing & seizing extreme crisis
We have eyes, but can we see? “What happens when ordinary people push their way down that road of peaceful, structural change in a determined (even desperate) way and run into grim, immovable...
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