Comments on: Crack capitalism or reclaim the state?

By: radfax

radfax — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:17:18 +0000

The demonic economic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnS0ffrhvY

By: ian

ian — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:49:34 +0000

I would only like to say that although I in no way doubt your sincerity, I cannot help feeling that I am listening to the same discussions that I have had with my friends around the table in the cafeteria or the student lounge at University back in the 6o’s. I am not hearing any refersnce to a class position. You do not once make reference, in your apparent understanding of Marxism, to the of the role of the working class. The creators of value in society. You tend to skirt the obvious which is that imperialism is the highest and final stage of monopoly capitalism. Imperialism cannot be reformed! I’m sure you know that. Say it! There are people in the world as we speak dying at the hands of imperialism. Ivory tower discussions, around a coffee table are great but take your struggle to the street. I’m approaching 70 years. I have been an active member in the peace movement here in Canada almost all my life. I am a retired trade unionist now, and were I younger I would be making the effort to take the message to the trade union movement again. The working class! Make no mistake the crack that you want to see wider in capitalism will not happen without the workers of the world.

By: humans in cages

humans in cages — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:36:53 +0000

the argument seems to both highlight the conflict in the aims in the recent protests against the cuts and also the conflict within ourselves: between clinging on to all that we’ve known before (centralised state, consumerism, etc) and HOPING, against our knowledge, that we can always get concessions from a capitalist state, and KNOWING that a radical grasp for something unknown is our only true choice, to prevent the complete meltdown that capitalism will certainly eventually bring.

By: anthony sera

anthony sera — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:10:28 +0000

dear hilary. why are you absent from newsmight?

By: jo

jo — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:50:58 +0000

“Our disagreements are about to what extent the sucking or alienating character of state institutions can be resisted and state institutions used, warily, in the struggle for a world beyond capitalism.”

still this belief in the state crops up, which is pseudo-revolutinary practice. We either reject the state or we support it, there;s no in the middle… the sucking and alienating character of capitalism is present to a huge extent, our job is not to compare the extent to which we can perceive it, but to fight it. It is too overwhelming to measure.