![]() ![]() Maisano rightly points out that if the goal of revolutionaries is to simply set up paramilitary groups and try to instigate battles, then we will be crushed. For an amazing book covering these inevitable eruptions in the 20th century, please read “ Revolutionary Rehearsals.”ġ) Insurrectionary politics lead to isolation and repression. To make sure we win, we need to have an orientation that recognizes this and prepares for it.Ī strategy that results in a successful workers’ revolution has to follow a path that includes a combination of class struggle and electoral struggle. What is not inevitable is who wins: the revolutionaries or the counter-revolutionaries. This is because the contradictions of class society have to periodically explode. On a long enough timeline, all societies will experience a revolutionary situation. If you click on this Jacobin story, you’ll see me hugging Rossana in the hero image.īefore going into that, I want to assert one main point: revolutions are inevitable. But for now, I think it is enough to point out that I was a core member of the Rossana Rodriguez campaign. I plan on writing more on this topic in the future. I’d also like to add that I completely agree with Maisano’s position that we need to engage in electoral politics. With B&R growing into a large and coherent caucus, and the fact that they are drawing in many of the best members of the DSA, I think it is important to engage B&R directly, in a comradely way, regarding their “anti-insurrectionist” position (as they phrase it). ![]() But none of these comrades take on Maisano specifically. Several other comrades have written articles to raise the Revolutionary Socialist flag, such as Sam Farber, Todd Chretien, and Tyler Zimmer. Chris Maisano does an excellent job of raising the Democratic Socialist flag. With all of this in mind, I’d like to join in this public discussion. Near the end of Maisano’s article, he states that “we will likely find that drawing hard and fast distinctions between ‘reformists’ and ‘revolutionaries’ at this point in our movement’s development does more to cloud our strategic thinking than it does to sharpen it.” But if this is the case, then it is strange that B&R decided to make a specific point of drawing that distinction in their own caucus platform. Maisano then responds in defense of B&R’s position in three ways: 1) claiming that insurrectionary politics will automatically lead to sectarian isolation and repressive violence, 2) claiming that Horras is waiting for the total collapse of capitalism, and 3) by elaborating more on democratic socialism. To put some things in context: Horras wrote an article in which he is specifically targeting the position of the Bread & Roses DSA caucus of being explicitly “anti-insurrection.” His article is specifically trying to address that particular distinction that B&R make in their “ Where We Stand” document. ![]()
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