reading group. a participant said lenin meant dictatorship of the proletariat âironicallyâ which sums up the political line of the group...
walking to the train in the rain i felt so enervated. even in a supposedly socialist space, itâs so totally backward.
another participant dismissed mao, because of the old shibboleth that china was backward and too stalinist. how does one square this with where active communist militants are? itâs like another universe. hell, how does one square this with marx? his letter to z...
i found myself thinking the labor aristocracy of the first world, of which most marxists here hail, is useless. the commitment to bourgeois âdemocracyâ is so complete it occludes any possibility of progress... i shouldnât let it get to me but some days i feel terribly alone.














