ion” May 11, 2021 strugglesessions We publish this submission from a reader of Struggle Sessions in the continued interests of forwarding debate in the USA on the contents and the core of Marxist doctrine, in the interests of deepening understanding of Maoism, and in the interests of imposing Maoism as the command and guide of …
To Be a Bright Torch for Others: On Felix Dzerzhinsky’s Prison Diary and Letters
by S Hausner To the young man pondering over his life, wondering whom to take as his model, I say— Don’t ponder, model it on Comrade Dzerzhinsky. From a poem by Mayakovsky The proletarian youth, with their usual bravery and yearning to action, should indeed follow Mayakovsky’s recommendation here and model their lives on Felix …
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Again on the Lumpenproletariat
Bourgeois Ideology and the Refuse of All Classes By Kavga Bourgeois culture is a cadaver which produces countless caricatures of the romantic thief—the disgraced bourgeois whose avenue for criminal acts within the framework of bourgeois law and order closes, at which point he becomes an extra-legal criminal predator. Robin Hood, and, as the gentleman detective …
Proletarian Feminism or the Marxist Theory of the Emancipation of Women?
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board This topic is of specific importance to revolutionaries in the US; our position is formulated on the basis of two-line struggles between the left and right in the US as well as an evaluation of the history of the International Communist Movement. We reject the terminology of “proletarian feminism” on the …
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Consumer Options: Reflections on Fads in Sexuality and the Glass of Water Theory
by Cathal “The changed attitude of the young people to questions of sexual life is of course based on a ‘principle’ and a theory. Many of them call their attitude ‘revolutionary’ and ‘communist’. And they honestly believe that it is so. That does not impress us old people. Although I am nothing but a gloomy …
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Four Points on Mutual Aid
by Cathal 1. Political Power Grows from a Plate of Lentils the Barrel of a Gun “There can be no competition between a mutual aid society and a revolutionary circle… But if in this same mutual aid society there develops a certain political tendency—not to aid revolutionaries, for instance, or to exclude illegal books from …
Intercommunalism is Not a Marxist Concept
By Cathal “The economic relationships of imperialism constitute the basis of the existing international situation.” -V.I. Lenin Introduction On the surface, even a short article about Huey P. Newton’s theory of intercommunalism might seem outdated or even pointless. Newton produced the theory at a time when the Black Panther Party which he led was on …
In Defense of Polemics
the winter has backed down almost killing everything and him staring at a shotgun giving up on his notions of being a lousy drunk and a poor poet satisfying his hands to the task of a propagandist The poem used as introduction is from an unknown source active in the movement. It speaks of the …
There Is No Civil War Ahead
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board There are comrades, nationally and internationally, who raise concerns about a Civil War approaching in the US. We believe these views to be unfounded, and in some cases a bi-product of spending too much time on the Internet and digesting the bourgeois news uncritically. It is necessary to approach problems with …
New Years Statement 2021
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board The current situation in the world and in the US What characterized 2020? Great uprisings and rebellions of the masses of the world, shaking the old order’s faith in their vicious “social peace”, where now they talk about the explosiveness of the masses and dream impossible dreams of blood, drowning that …
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