The Party and Communist Solidarity

摘要: This essay, based on a talk given at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference, defends idea of party by setting out conditions that make it necessary. Rather than imagining national, mass-electoral party, envisions solidary, militant, international organization. Against left realists who claim is an outmoded or “fully saturated” political form and we are relegated to momentary acts resistance small reforms leave capitalist system intact, our push us rethink renew organization through which communists think collectively about power, act together in order generate it, inspire one another use for collective determination world produce common. Capitalism pushes apart. Left politics, instead emphasizing difference, should assert build commonality. The this assertion.