“Off-piste”

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Letter in Weekly Worker 1031 (October 23, 2014) Download the microsoft office 2010 trial.

In writing this letter on Chris Cutroneā€™s critique of Mike Macnairā€™s book Revolutionary strategy (ā€˜Democratic revolution and the contradiction of capitalā€™, October 16), I am fully aware that: (a) Mike is probably considering a reply himself; (b) comparing a full-length book with a two-page article is potentially inherently unfair to the latter; and (c) that I am perhaps not the best qualified person to enter the debate, having only recently come to a serious engagement with issues of Marxist political strategy Download The Undressed Phantom World. Nevertheless, I thought it might be worth sharing how a comparison of the two has impressionistically struck a ā€˜general readerā€™.

Macnairā€™s approach has the following virtues that appear lacking in Cutroneā€™s account: (a) it is relatively comprehensible; (b) it appears rooted in a close reading of concrete historical events (aka ā€˜the materialist conception of historyā€™), whereas Cutrone appears to wander off-piste into free-floating philosophising, bordering on the worst of post-modernism; (c) Macnair offers concrete proposals as to what the Marxist left should be doing in the here and now, whereas Cutrone appears to be promoting a deeply depressing view of the proletariat as still primarily the passive victim of history jquery-1.11.1.min.js ė‹¤ģš“ė”œė“œ.

Sean Thurlough
London

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