Interview With James Smith - Part 2
Added 2022-02-23 15:25:05 +0000 UTCIn the second part of our interview with James Smith, of The Popular Show, we look at the use and abuses of the term "fascism", the position of the petit bourgeoisie and the usefulness of the "left-right" distinction in today's politics.
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Thanks for this :)
William Mckay
2022-04-10 11:11:23 +0000 UTClistening to this - I think one thing that you miss in discussing the Canadian truck drivers and the left response to it and even in your own response to it - is that struggle itself changes consciousness. The danger is seeing the kind of wacky ideas popped have as fixed, whereas a left that engaged and was able to intervene in any kind of spontaneous workers revolt - and we are seeing many of them both politically and economically. The reason the left gave for opposing the Truck drivers is that it was supported by various right wing characters. But what they failed to look at was the social composition of the movement, the class dynamic at play and that it was a political movement not merely an economic one ( ironically one of the reasons they gave for opposing it in some cases!!). Any way my point is an organisation aimed at building independent working class politics would be able to not just support such movements and actions but be able to intervene them and raise the political level, as the process of struggle would A - give people experience of facing the state and all that that means, and B be looking for better ways to organise and resist. Essentially any illusions they may have in the states and thier political ideas are transformed - how they are transformed is a political question and is about how a working class movement can develop and how real marxists can engage, not to lead, but to organise and politicise these movements.
Bob P.
2022-04-09 17:05:48 +0000 UTC
