John Lacny
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Mon Jun 12, 2000 03:12am From: jplst15+ at pitt.edu To: marxist at egroups.com Subject: [marxist] an advice column...
Ask a Member of the Spartacist League
by Alex Krogan UC-Davis Spartacus Youth Club
Dear Member of the Spartacist League, After my divorce six months ago, I was looking forward to "playing the field" once again. However, after hitting the bars and going out on a few dates, I find myself as tongue-tied around men as I was when I was a teenager. What accounts for my surprising shyness? And what can I do to overcome it? --Single In Syracuse
Dear Single, Against calls by liberal and reformist protestors for a more "progressive" US foreign policy, we explain that the entire capitalist system is criminal. Only a victorious workers revolution, like the October 1917 Revolution led by the Bolshevik Party of Lenin and Trotsky, can abolish the dictatorship of profit and private property and lay the economic basis to eliminate class exploitation and oppression once and for all. The Spartacus Youth Clubs are training ground for the revolutionaries who will lead new Octobers. Join us!
Dear Member of the Spartacist League, My brother recently moved in with me, claiming that he could no longer afford rent and didn't want to move back in with our parents. I feel torn. Part of me wants to be supportive and cut him some slack, but another part wants to tell him to get lost. After all, he seems to be more interested in hanging out with his friends than in looking for a better-paying job. What do you think I should do? --Tested In Tempe
Dear Tested, What's needed to end the Colombian bloodbath, and to throw off imperialist domination throughout Latin America, is the forging of revolutionary workers parties armed with the Trotskyist perspective of permanent revolution: the proletariat -- standing at the head of the peasantry, the indigenous peoples and all the oppressed -- must seize state power from the weak and venal bourgeoisies, necessarily seeking to extend socialist revolution to the imperialist heartland. We fight to build Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard parties based on the program of permanent revolution in Colombia and throughout Latin America, as part of the struggle to reforge Trotsky's Fourth International.
Dear Member of the Spartacist League: I recently moved to Florida from Wisconsin for my career, and it's made me very unhappy. My job is fine and the weather here is beautiful, but the people are really different from what I'm used to. To make a long story short, I'm having trouble finding a Florida man with good old-fashioned Midwestern values! Should I move back? Or should I tough it out and learn to adjust? -- Confused In Coral Gables
Dear Confused, Black oppression is an integral part of racist American capitalism. To sweep away the entire apparatus of capitalist repression, to end their whole system of racial oppression, exploitation and war, requires a multiracial revolutionary workers party to lead the fight for a workers government which will take industry away from its capitalist owners and rebuild America on a socialist planned economy. Finish the Civil War! Forward to a workers state!
Dear Member of the Spartacist League, I am a happily married man with a warm and loving wife who is also my best friend. We've been together for 17 years and couldn't be happier. But lately she says she wants separate beds. I'm reeling! We're barely in our 40s, and in my mind separate sleeping is for seniors. Am I making too much of this? Help! --Anxious In Andersonville
Dear Anxious, The Spartacus Group Japan, together with our comrades around the world in the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), fights to bring to the proletariat the consciousness of its historic task as the gravedigger of capitalism. To sweep away this capitalist system and to eliminate racism, a Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard party must be built to link together all forms of resistance to immiseration and oppression in order to create an egalitarian socialist society here and internationally. For new October Revolutions! Reforge the Fourth International! For a workers republic in Japan as part of a socialist federation of Asia!
Alex Krogan is a member of the Spartacus Youth Club, which in contrast to the fake "lefts" of the ISO puts forth a Trotskyist program of unconditional military defense of the deformed and degenerated workers states. His column, Ask a Member of the Spartacist League, appears in one and only one newspaper nationwide. His new book, Defend the Chinese Deformed Workers State Against Imperialism and Internal Counterrevolution, is forthcoming from the Spartacist Publishing Company in September.
"[C]apital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." --Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 31
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