On Socialist Organization and Parties

My fellow comrade from SWP days, "DR", has just completed his inaugural programmatic composition, which can be found here:

 

I do not think it likely that the future revolutionary party we all hope to see materialize

(sooner as opposed to later) will come as a result of a re-groupment of

the eclectic forces in the United States commonly referred to as the

left, but rather as a result of gigantic explosions in the

working-class, along the lines of the movement to bring into being the

CIO but qualitatively larger and deeper, that will result in an epic

mass movement to defend the poor and those slipping into poverty, to

organize the organized so we can organize the unorganized, and to launch

the most likely political variant arising out of these explosions - a

labor party. We can see the logic of the current situation, both

economic and political, made manifest in the past two to three years,

that points to this coming explosion. The value of the socialist

organizations is their ability to bring into the class the ideas of

scientific socialism. For that reason, I believe two of our most

valuable assets are Haymarket Books and Pathfinder Press.

 

DR

 

DR has a wealth of revolutionary party experience, and I hope he will not be shy about sharing his experiences.  We need to preserve some of the nuts-and-bolts skills as much as the bigger insights if we are not to keep lagging behind and reinventing wheels already available.