Strategy

Marxism / Leninism • Reform / Revolution • Role of a Vanguard Party

How do we develop a political organization capable of avoiding the same traps of the past? Are communist parties inevitably social democratic and bureaucratic? Can existing parties in the US be saved? In this panel, Marxist organizations come together to learn from the experience in India and elsewhere. This public event is both a workshop and a frank and sober discussion about the road ahead.

István Mészáros’ The Challenge & Burden of Historical Time

Capital cannot tolerate any limitations to its own mode of social metabolic reproduction…not even when the devastating consequences are already glaringly obvious both in the field of production and on the terrain of the ecology. The only modality of time in which capital can be interested is exploitable labor time.