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
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.
Francois xavier
2023-08-09 19:35:41 +0000 UTCReally disappointed you didn't ask Aliyah the hard question: what is MUG's stance on the Corn Palace???
DeliaCore
2023-07-28 22:14:05 +0000 UTCThese 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
2023-07-26 17:36:31 +0000 UTC9 spheres of heaven 7 terraces of purgatory 9 circles of hell
M.R. Alchemist
2023-07-26 17:30:19 +0000 UTCwhat about Communist Unity Network Team?
The Antifada
2023-07-26 17:21:37 +0000 UTCA 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)
Jim
2023-07-26 16:50:44 +0000 UTC
