Comments on: Daniel Bensaïd and the shape of socialist strategy

By: Jacob Richter

Jacob Richter — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:45:17 +0000

Lainej, it’s good to know you’ve read that book!

By: Angel Formoso

Angel Formoso — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:36:01 +0000

Historical materialism was difficult to understand during the life of Karl Marx. High falluting words and phrases usually confuses the readers. If we can describe historical materialism and dialectics through simply ways like democratic capitalism was defended through comics or cartoons, the masses might be able to get them. Moreover, if we find a link between religion and dialectical materialism by modifying them as God-ordained symbolized by Christ’s profession as a carpenter, the masses might be able to accept or imbibe them. At present, socialism cannot be imposed through parliamentary struggle but by the barrel of a gun. If the CIA’s motto of the way they LIE FOR A LIVING, we communists can invoke the Bible, the Torah, the Koran as ‘communist-inspired’.

By: lainej

lainej — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:12:08 +0000

Have you had a look at Mike Macnair’s ‘Revolutionary Strategy’, which deals with the same kind of questions as Bensaïd’s book?

By: Daniel Hartley

Daniel Hartley — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:01:16 +0000

Hi John, Just a quick note to let you and your readers know that I’ve written a translation of “Strategy and Politics from Marx to the Third International” for Sebastian Budgen and will be sending a complete first draft to him some time in the next week. I have no idea when or where it will appear, but it should be out there soon. Best, Daniel