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mima wrote

Funny how you try to gatekeep leftists here when you obviously haven't read theory. There's no such thing as "middle class".

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GlangSnorrisson wrote

This person is such a real leftist they refuse to use their right hand. Or turn signal.

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maskfutures OP wrote

The middle caste strikes again!

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GlangSnorrisson wrote (edited )

Not caring about leftism means I’m middle-class?

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maskfutures OP wrote

Yes, LOL.

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GlangSnorrisson wrote

That’s a huge amount of workers you’re writing off in that case lol.

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maskfutures OP wrote

The middle caste only sabotage the revolution.

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mima wrote

...which is what you're exactly doing. I doubt you're really organizing IRL. Stop spouting lies. Stay away from Raddle or any social media for a moment. And start doing some real organizing, arousing, and mobilizing. Then come back and share your experiences and the lessons you have learned.

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maskfutures OP wrote

Freedom Socialist, Vol. 28, No. 1 and “Why has no anticapitalist revolution been fully completed? What holds the working class back? Trotsky says a major factor to be the treachery of its own opportunist leadership, the middle caste.

“In 1982, in a political resolution written for the Freedom Socialist Party, Murry Weiss, Sam Deaderick, and Clara Fraser expand[ed] on Trotsky's analysis about the nature of this misleadership, and how it retarts, derails, and deflects workers' revolt. Entitled ‘The Precarious '80s, Crisis and Opportunity,’ their work provides invaluable insight for activists today. Below are excerpts[:]

“Trotsky used the phrase ‘middle caste’ in The History of the Russian Revolution to describe the social stratum which seized and held power between the February 1917 revolution and the October 1917 Bolshevik victory. This caste, he wrote, was a ‘petty bourgeois partition-wall between the revolutionary masses and the capitalist bourgeoisie.’...

“The middle caste diffuses, derails, and when pressured, violently combats any substantive confrontation between capital and labor. This caste claims to represent labor or women or gays or people of color or war resisters or consumers, but actually acts as a transmission belt that carries the interests and ideology of the ruling class back into the very mass movements it pretends to lead. “The maintenance of peaceful coexistence is the middle caste's business, all the way from international politics to the shop floor. The middle caste is not a class; it does not have a precise relationship to the means of production. The term describes a social layer whose members may span class lines but who play an identical political role: pacification of the class struggle. Its interests and program are petty bourgeois, middleclass, not proletarian.

“In fact, the equilibrium between the ruling class and the middle caste is the critical social glue which has maintained capitalist rule long after capitalism as a system has become outdated and retrogressive. But for middle-caste treachery and betrayal, world revolution would have long since triumphed.

“The class interest of the bourgeoisie lies in its need to subdue, defeat, and exploit the working class for profit...In the USA, the middle caste is that vast and obnoxious layer of opportunist professionals, technocrats, labor bureaucrats, mass movement reformist leaders, and slightly left-of-center politicians...They channel the radical impulses of others into reformist directions. They foster the illusion that humane capitalism is a possibility, that we can reform our way to equality and utopia. Their function is to conciliate and compromise, make deals and keep the peace.

“U.S. capitalism faces a working class growing, by necessity, more militant. Inflation, unemployment, speed-up, and loss of benefits proceed apace, and racism, sexism, homophobia, and ageism are on the rise. The traditionally high-paid aristocrats of labor are themselves facing the specter of layoff and contract concessions. And as the working class turns to militant struggle tactics for sheer survival, the labor bureaucracy is forced into left-sounding phrases to prevent real labor radicals from gaining adherents and leadership...The old equilibriums are crumbling. Direct, naked, and unmediated class confrontations are on the new agenda.

“The traditional mechanism of equilibrium between the rulers and the middle caste is the Democratic Party. There the bourgeoisie, reformists, bureaucrats, and social-patriot social democrats run an ugly game on the U.S. working class. But the game is being recognized in wider and wider circles as a con game...Labor's face is changing color and changing gender, and as it does, labor sees more clearly into the sham and shuck of the ruling class and the middle caste.”

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mima wrote

Congrats, you exposed yourself as a Trot. And it's long known that Trots are traitors, backstabbers, and agents of U.S. imperialism.

Again, the middle class doesn't exist. Stop spreading bullshit.

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throwaway wrote (edited )

That was a nice watch, thanks for sharing!

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maskfutures OP wrote

I'll never fully grasp why you people reject Trotsky. He did Maoism before Mao.

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mima wrote

Ok, LOL. We understand you. You want to turn Raddle into a circus. That won't happen though, unless you know how to code in PHP. (If you are a PHP programmer, you might want to consider forking Postmill to include some circus functions, who knows, they might be accepted into upstream!)

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mima wrote

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maskfutures OP wrote

He didn't support the party.

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mima wrote

Do you think Trotsky, if he were alive today, would support the CCP? He will denounce it as a "degenerated workers' state". Trotsky would mostly likely hate Dengist China's "strategy" in "supporting the international communist movement", if it even exists.

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ruin wrote

You’re call to the authority of a 40 year old political resolution no one gives a fuck about based on 100 year old ideas of a failed revolutionary intrigue me...

Which way to the re-education center comrade. I want to be a leftist too so I can share in your delusion.

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