BUILDING SOLIDARITY – WHO'S A COMRADE AND WHO ISN'T (an essay not a rant): As I said two days ago, Sophia Burns' “Why Suffer for Social Justice”
– linked here again because it is such vital reading for all of us
involved in the struggle against Capitalism – is one of the most
hauntingly provocative pieces I have read in many years. It speaks to me
personally with such power it has triggered introspection of an
intensity I at age 77 assumed was decades behind me, though that is
another story for another time – if indeed I ever find the courage to
write it. In any case, what we are discussing tonight – an important
part of what makes Burns' work newsworthy – is its exemplary usefulness
in helping us distinguish between real or potential comrades
and those whose hostility to socialist revolution (whether the
hostility is disclosed or not) renders them at best nothing more than
temporary allies and at worse co-optors or agents provocateur – which
again underscores the relevance of Lev Bronstein's 1905 dictum that in
every gathering of three revolutionaries, there is at least one agent of
the Okhrana. It also underscores the relevance of a statement the soon-to-be-assassinated Malcolm X made 54 years ago:
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