"On the Question of Revisionism" (1945) by William Z. Foster. Marxist/Communist Audiobook+Discussion

[@humanwithaplaylist]

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[@jeffisfine]

I hate how thin the line is between properly considering material conditions in implementing socialist tactics and using material conditions as an excuse to abandon socialist principles. Like, if material conditions were the be-all-end-all, then we wouldn't need theory; instead, we'd just do whatever seemed like it'd achieve some goal or another based on past experience and inference at best and absolutely nothing at worst. It'd be like performing a scientific experiment without an hypothesis first. Worse yet, Lenin's NEP is often used as an historical example for doing so with little to no understanding of how it still followed socialist principles nor his evaluation of it after the fact. Or maybe the line isn't thin at all, and some people are just looking for any aesthetically pleasing excuse to abandon or destroy the struggle for personal gain.

[@DuctTapeUtopia]

This is a really underrated concept you're highlighting, esp the NEP example. It underscores how seriously the early bolshevik party took the problem of potentially introducing collective policy too quickly--you can't just go 0-100, but you do have to accelerate to a velocity at a certain rate after all

[@RedHoosier]

It seems that Foster, and the party in general, would have benefited from a better understanding of Mao's combat liberalism. I extend my gratitude to you and the supporters for enabling the creation of this content.

[@JohnT.4321]

Another banger, thank you. As to giving myself to more study of Marxist Leninism, my eyes open more and more to see how much there was a departure from Marxism due to revisionism which I see as a creeping mental disease which is contagious. Yes, I do see clearly how capitalist ideas can creep into Marxism. There will always be those that come along just to do that. I made a comment in a previous video that leadership was nothing more than a tool. Though the years I have seen how people here in the US latch themselves to a leader as "the" final authority. I pretty sure this happens in the rest of the world. We see in this book (not only the criticism of Browder) that he had his followers that pushed for his agenda. We, as Marxist Leninists, have to be as educated or more educated than any leaders elected to represent the Party. We are not blind "yes men and women" to the leader. If the leader does not do his/her job, they can be recalled and someone else elected. It may surprise some of you of what I wrote about leaders has come from a De Leonist point of view as it was explained to me years ago by a friend of mine. However, Deleonism pales in comparison to Marxist Leninism and I will leave it at that. As concerning the text, I see there was an effort in damage control from Browderism. Unfortunately the CPUSA has never recovered. I don't see the Canadian Communist Party as being any better. Worldwide, revisionism can be seen. Note: I wonder if the CPUSA will do another "Vote Against Fascism" to have people vote for the lesser of two evils to give Biden another four years? What I wrote as a comment is just my own opinion.

[@ariabk]

thanks

[@friendofvinnie]

Very good and informative thanks bro 👍

[@draekalloy3673]

Thanks for another interesting audiobook!

[@SpiritRed]

I'm still amazed that a sound theoretician such as Browder would betray the workers' movement as he did. This is another good piece. It shows us the importance of knowing our history and theory so that we can as quickly as possible notice and combat revisionism. Thank you, S4A.

[@MalitoSC]

I find it ironic that khrushchevite revisionism is similar to browder's utopian view of peace. I wonder why the soviet leadership didn't see the growing threat of revisionism

[@jamiemcintosh3030]

Did they become complacent?

[@Pacman420]

Great video, thank you for all of your hard work bringing us these, comrade.

[@BasedGodFlashy]

This one was better than the last one from Foster. He actually mentioned Socialism! This also is an admittance that the theoretical training of the party was weak, proving the necessity of reading and internalizing theory. An uneducated mass of baby Leftists is exactly what revisionists want as it benefits them! This is why so many revisionists are extremely vague in explanations, hardly ever give a source for anything and when they do its laughably out of context, and spend most of their time sending the same memes back and forth. I've noticed more and more revisionists will try to evade you like the plague when they know you could easily prove them wrong.

[@sse_weston4138]

I recall when I was at that stage, the one that had allure to me at the time was HasanAbi. The issues of that LARPer need not repeating, but it did make me stumble into being exposed to some of the general contradictions in capitalism which made me genuinely interested in all this "socialism" that was being repeated. I kept waiting and waiting for when it would be explained what socialism even is, never got it of course. I'd say he's revisionist, but that would require theory to be there in the first place to be revised (similar to how Vaush would just say "tankie", Hasan would always respond to any criticism with "You read too much theory"), and being fed up with never getting anywhere, I left that space. Very thankful I did.

[@slipknotboy555]

Exactly!

[@animexamera]

Thanks for recording!

[@tubbylumpkins4885]

Thank you!

[@slipknotboy555]

21:00 Hahahaha. Um - what!? 36:58 For sure Definitely looking forward to the next one (I mean, as usual, but yeah)!

[@nosamos847]

What happened to your podcast? It disappeared yesterday...

[@SocialismForAll]

If you mean on Spotify, I'm not sure. They are doing some kind of reorganization of the site. It's still accessible at this link, but the "listen on Spotify" link isn't working at the moment: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialismforall/

[@SpiritRed]

Fully agree with the baby Marxists as prey commentary.

[@liambutterfield1527]

I'm skeptical of how much writers attribute the incident to a lack of education. It seems to have so many parallels in other parties that I worry it may be structural flaws of tiered offices, with higher administration naturally becoming incentivized to demobilize and pacify the party and its line.

[@gwynbleidd1917]

Thank you for your hard work as always, comrade S4A!❤ As a union member of a local attached to the AFL CIO, this one hit too close to home. I hate how reactionary our "international" is. AFL-CIO sucks

[@applejuice54321]

❤

[@humanwithaplaylist]

Just another comment to say this was very good

[@williammdsilva]

Good

[@christopher5846]

Could you please do some of Bordiga's works? Appreciate it comrade.

[@SocialismForAll]

Thanks, but I am not a big Bordiga fan as this is a Marxist-Leninist channel. If I did Bordiga, it probably would be more of an anti-Bordiga series.

[@hiera1917]

thanks!! revisionism is bad, actually

[@mattickista]

Do you have a video on trotskyism?

[@SocialismForAll]

No, but my next series after this Anti-Browderism one will be Anti-Trotskyist. In the meantime, I'd point you to this one by Lenin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2WTmZKNh8drb6s Also these: www.marxists.org/archive/kamenev/1924/11/trotskyism.htm www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/11_19.htm

[@owne6609]

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