tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732150012853730885.post5612722716501281137..comments2023-06-06T09:45:50.526+01:00Comments on Wolfie: Left-UnityWolfiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05363844837499772495noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732150012853730885.post-7841622889594652752011-05-26T19:23:58.621+01:002011-05-26T19:23:58.621+01:00My argument is that the current crisis of capitali...My argument is that the current crisis of capitalism has created a similar moment historically in which we can bring together theory and practice as they did sixty years ago when the left built the ‘‘historic bloc’’ that created the hegemony of welfare capitalist and thirty years ago when right built the ‘‘historic bloc’’ that created the hegemony of free-market capitalism. The question then becomes who will lead the next ‘‘historic bloc’’ and create the hegemony that comes next.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363844837499772495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732150012853730885.post-25883707563342129042011-05-26T19:22:27.032+01:002011-05-26T19:22:27.032+01:00Who will form the next ‘‘historic bloc’’
Thatche...Who will form the next ‘‘historic bloc’’ <br /><br />Thatcher and Reagan and the theorist of new-conservatism had successfully trashed the post-war consensus for the Keynesian model of capitalism, now thirty years on its time to trash the consensus for the barbarism that is capitalism and create a new consensus for socialism.<br /><br />As a Marxist I argue we make our own history so it’s down to the theorists of Marxism and the leadership of Marxist/Leninists to take up the historical-dialectical challenge of the material conditions of 21st century capitalism and make this the century that choses socialism rather than the barbarism that is capitalism.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363844837499772495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5732150012853730885.post-6986838409800917832011-05-25T18:49:56.086+01:002011-05-25T18:49:56.086+01:00What we need is to form what Antonio Gramsci calle...What we need is to form what Antonio Gramsci called a ‘‘historic bloc’’ that can oppose the capitalist state and super-state. The new-right formed such a ‘‘historic bloc’’ in the 1970’s based around the ideology of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism to overturn the hegemony of Keynesian welfare capitalism in the advanced western bourgeois democracies and to oversee the dismantling of 20th century social-democracy along with socialism in the former Soviet bloc. Capitalism has become global through the institutions of finance capital and global governance through the World Bank, IMF and WTO and regionally through blocs such as the EU. Therefore the dialectical reality of the material history of the late 20th century means if the British Road to Socialism is to have any chance it also has to encompass a European and Global Road to Socialism as parts of an overall strategy towards socialism.<br /><br />The role of the Marxist/Leninist vanguard is to lead the ideological battle for a new consensus for socialist polices just as the right-wing theorists of the 1970’s led the ideological battle for a neo-liberal/neo-conservative consensus which created the hegemony of the new-imperialism we know as globalization. Therefore there will only be a new-hegemony for socialism if we have both theory and practice that can create this new ‘‘historic bloc’’ that is capable of confronting the right-wing hegemony of capital and the ideology of a neo-liberal market and neo-conservative state and super-state. This is the historic role of Marxism and Leninism and therefore it’s the role of the British Left to form promote a hegemony of the working classes that can overthrow the hegemony of the capitalist classes and the capitalist institutions at the national, regional and global level. This requires an alliance of the British Left with the European Left parties.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363844837499772495noreply@blogger.com