hello live tweeting some quotes from CLR James’ ‘The Invading Socialist Society’ today as I’m re-reading because it’s so good

“The whole debate about nationalization should be mercilessly swept aside ... it is no more than a means, and, with bourgeois and Stalinists, a deliberate means of blinding the masses to the need for their own self-mobilization.”

“At each successive state the degeneration of the proletarian party not only imitates capitalism but must take on to a greater degree the contradictions which are rending capitalism.”

“The proletariat, on a higher plane, has drawn the ultimate conclusion. Its revolt is not against politics and the distribution of the surplus-value. The revolt is against value production itself.“

“The Stalinist leaderships are a further stage of development of Menshevism in 1917. The Mensheviks trembled before the ‘anarchy’ of the revolutionary fervor of the masses and fear of the inevitable intervention.” https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥵" title="Hot face" aria-label="Emoji: Hot face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">

“How is it possible in the face of this [world crisis] to tell the workers about the slow but sure preparation of the revolution? They are then slowly but surely to starve and shiver without houses, without clothes, and without fuel.”