[lbo-talk] RCP watch!

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Feb 9 08:50:46 PST 2009


Dennis wrote: > Is this RCP affiliated with Bob Avakian's cult?

Doug (and others replied): No, this is the British outfit, now defunct.

What can I say? I was in the British RCP, which was Trotskyist in origin, rather than Maoist. We tried our best, but it was not good enough. Of course there are always temptations to sustain the organisation beyond its justification (making a revolution), but looking at the alternative of slogging it out, I think liquidationism was the right course. Right or wrong we thought that British society in the 1980s was tottering, and the working class making a real challenge. By the late nineties, capitalism had recovered, and the working class movement was in disarray.

I can see a case for small group work, of an investigative or propagandistic character. But any conclusions that came to would be of a very conditional character, given the ideological disarray on the left, and the de-politicisation of most questions of social administration. Maybe the current difficulties will force a class realignment, but that's just speculation so far.



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