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Ep 221: Mugged by reality w/ The Marxist Unity Group
🕑 Added 2023-07-26 10:00:03 +0000 UTCSean is joined by Aliyah and Isaac from the Democratic Socialists of America caucus the Marxist Unity Group to talk about their political line and practice:
What is the historical relationship between Marxism, the workers movement and small-r republicanism? Why has Karl Kautsy become anathema on the far-left and is it time to bring this famous 'renegade' back? Who is Mike McNair of the Communist Party of Great Britain and what is his influence? How is it possible to uphold the revolutionary republican tradition of the United States as a socialist virtue when the US has become what it has become? And why, contra-Browderism, must the constitution be destroyed for freedom to ring?
Song: Descendents - Coffee Mug
Comments
Francois xavier
I appreciate the comrade of the MUG. However, for me, they reproduce the error of kautsky and Lenin. A gross understimation of the capacity of bourgeois democracy to integrate the working class and neutralize it’s struggles. Democratization will mean integration and the elimination of revolutionary potential.
DeliaCore
Really disappointed you didn't ask Aliyah the hard question: what is MUG's stance on the Corn Palace???
M.R. Alchemist
These guys are like cutrone if he wasn't a begrieved dumbass; more MUG, less Cutrone. Only problem I have is they want to do this through the DSA(which is basically just the Democratic Party at this point); create your own party!
M.R. Alchemist
9 spheres of heaven 7 terraces of purgatory 9 circles of hell
The Antifada
what about Communist Unity Network Team?
Jim
A valuable and useful dialogue to have, but it's a 'no' from me, my DSA compadres. (without being some sort of sick sadist, you'd never be able to have the acronym MUG for a political movement in Britain anyway)
