The Digger

Published: 25/11/2006 Written by: Tom Bramble Socialist Alternative Socialists argue that the working class needs to make a revolution to bring about a socialist society. But as soon as you say this you encounter an obvious objection: that the working class does not appear to be in a mad hurry to make a revolution. The supposed reasons for the apparent passivity of the working class are many and varied. That the working class in the West is too well-off. That the working class is trapped in a fog of media lies. That, with the decline of the blue-collar workforce, the working class doesn't exist in the way that it did in Marx's day. What often underpins this pessimism is a romanticised idea of the past. People think of the Russian Revolution of 1917 or the stirring struggles of Spanish workers in the 1930s and believe that workers then were constantly itching to fight and that society was in a permanent state of turmoil. This objection is nothing new. In 1907, the ...

IX. CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM By the critique of imperialism, in the broad sense of the term, we mean the attitude of the different classes of society towards imperialist policy in connection with their general ideology. The enormous dimensions of finance capital concentrated in a few hands and creating an extraordinarily dense and widespread network of relationships and connections which subordinates not only the small and medium, but also the very small capitalists and small masters, on the one hand, and the increasingly intense struggle waged against other national state groups of financiers for the division of the world and domination over other countries, on the other hand, cause the propertied classes to go over entirely to the side of imperialism. “General” enthusiasm over the prospects of imperialism, furious defence of it and painting it in the brightest colours—such are the signs of the times. Imperialist ideology also penetrates the working class. No Chinese Wall se...

Alexander Cockburn talks about anger with the banks, the left's failure to understand it, and Glenn Beck's ability to capitalize on it. And if you doubt Cockburn's analytical sincerity, internalize this: In Defense of Marxism, Topic: The French elections: a collapse of the status quo ,  https://newlevellers.blogspot.com/2018/12/in-defense-of-marxism-topic-french.html and I —fuck me lord — bow before this unacknowledged giant of a socialist-to-the-hilt man: "Marxists," Dig deep! Dig deeper!

13  year old Victoria Grant focusses on extreme corruption in the banking system. The death of children in the Middle East. Power and Profit instead of people. The banking structure is the cause of poverty. Corruption prevails in the banking system, with the complicity of national governments. Major reforms in the structure of international banking are required. The democratization of monetary policy. How to eradicate extreme poverty.

I have two Aussies, excellent herders. If Marxists were sheep my Aussies would prove useless. So here is Alan Woods* commenting on the "gilets jaunes' movement and he sounds nothing like the several self-identified "Marxists" who are embracing the capitalist politics of division, which finds them nasally railing against 90% of the (lumpenproles?)working class, in several threads at The Digger, with (irrational?)passion and gusto. and  * Alan Woods  (born 23 October 1944) [1]  is a British  Trotskyist   political theorist  and author. [2]  He is one of the  leading  members of the  International Marxist Tendency  (IMT), as well as of its British affiliate group  Socialist Appeal . [3]  He is political editor of the IMT's  In Defence of Marxism  website. Woods was a leading supporter within the  Militant tendency  within the UK  Labour Party  and its parent group the  Co...

Link:  It is imperative to construct a 5th International of workers and peoples  — by Samir Amin "We are now in the phase of the ‘autumn of capitalism’ without this being strengthened by the emergence of ‘the people’s spring’ and a socialist perspective. The possibility of substantial progressive reforms of capitalism in its current stage is only an illusion. There is no alternative other than that enabled by a renewal of the international radical left, capable of carrying out – and not just imagining – socialist advances. It is necessary to end crisis-ridden capitalism rather than try to end the crisis of capitalism." Excerpt:  " i)Contemporary capitalism is presented as being ‘open’ to criticism and reform, as innovative and flexible.  Some voices claim to put an end to the abuses of its uncontrolled finance and the permanent austerity policies that accompany it – and thus ‘save capitalism’.  But such calls will remain in vain as present practice...