Obituary of Class War - Radical Chains
Submitted by griddle on Feb 10 2012 17:49
Radical Chains on the demise and legacy of the UK anarchist organisation Class War Federation.
Last Editorial - Radical Chains
Submitted by griddle on Feb 10 2012 17:43
"The message that the end of stalinism and the defeat of communism are the same has not been effectively contested. Yet the irony is that if the working class had never tended to communism, the likes of Hobsbawm, Marxism Today, the official communists parties or even Stalin's USSR would have been neither possible nor necessary."
Situating the Situationists - Radical Chains
Submitted by griddle on Feb 10 2012 17:37
A critique of The Most Radical Gesture; The Situationist International in the Post Modern Age by Sadie Plant.
Anton Pannekoek and the theory of the transition - Radical Chains
Submitted by blebber on Nov 2 2011 14:57
Pannekoek's experience of the German revolution led him to observe that the workers' own struggle needed continuously to break down regimes and forms resulting from previous struggles. This gave him a powerful analysis of opportunism and enabled him to perceive the dangers of mere representation of the working class.
After Zimmerwald - Radical Chains
Submitted by blebber on Nov 2 2011 14:47
The modern left, bolshevism included, are all children of Zimmerwald. It was at the Zimmerwald conference in 1915 that the revolutionary left thrashed out the issues of its relation to the centrist and reformist wings of the movement and its orientation towards national self-determination... Lenin may have been well in advance of anyone in his call for revolutionary defeatism, but... Lenin's defence of the right of nations to self-determination was no more than a reiteration of orthodoxy and... in their assessment of the real consequences of support for nationalism the European left proved to be more perspicacious than Lenin.
The prevention of communism - Radical Chains
Submitted by sdrg45 on Jun 26 2011 14:24
The authors identify capitalism's decay as assuming forms of the prevention of communism. These - notably stalinism and social-democracy - are entirely dependent on capital as well as being its guarantors on a world scale. Yet resting neither upon the law of value nor on that of planning, they are inherently unstable and contain no dynamic towards transition. From Radical Chains no.1.
Statement of Intent - Radical Chains
Statement of intent from the communist journal, Radical Chains, published in London between 1989 and 1998.
Franz Jakubowski: consciousness and the critique of political economy - Radical Chains
Submitted by sdrg45 on Jun 26 2011 14:04
This article examines the attempt by Franz Jakubowski, a trotskyist leader of the 1930s, to confront those conceptions of consciousness that were dominant within the Second and Third Internationals... Unable to comprehend the impact of the prevention of communism on working class consciousness, Jakubowski is able only to reassert an abstract dichotomy of "false" and "correct" consciousness. This critique of Jakubowski has ramifications that go beyond the bolshevik tradition itself. From Radical Chains no.3
The hidden political economy of the left - Radical Chains
Submitted by sgel on Jun 17 2011 13:11
It is from Lenin's Imperialism and State and Revolution that the modern left derives much of its understanding. While stressing the strengths of these works, the authors indicate how acceptance of the various weaknesses obstructs the left in its attempt to comprehend the various forms of administrative practice that have been established in the name of the working class. Unable to understand the real basis of working class opposition to such forms, the left slides into various kinds of contempt for the working class. From Radical Chains no.3.
The myth of working class passivity - Radical Chains
Submitted by sgel on Jun 17 2011 12:45
There is an unbridgeable gap between the project outlined in Lenin's What is to be Done? and the principle of proletarian self-emancipation. We must return to Marx. More importantly we must return to the developing political economy of the working class. Crucially, we must examine the conditions which are the outcome of working class struggle but against which the working class is forced to struggle again ... From Radical Chains no.2.
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