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Strategic lessons that we can learn from older experiences such as the Russian Revolution are very, very important, because in my view, we are today witnessing two crises. The first is the most profound crisis of legitimacy that we have seen in decades. It is a crisis of neo-liberalism. In the Atlantic world from Germany across Western Europe all the way into the United States and Canada, neo-liberalism now is dead. Ideologically, it has no legitimacy at all.
We see the discontent with this model now still only taking an electoral form. It has not yet taken an organisational form, in workplaces or neighborhoods. But that’s because of the second crisis. Perhaps the left is less aware of this. We are in the midst of the death throes of the political party and the political formations that the second international and the era of the second international threw up. This is less visible in South Africa, which still has one of the largest communist parties in the world. But outside of South Africa, even in countries like India with hundreds of thousands of members in the communist parties, you are seeing these parties now in their death throes.
When you put all this together, it seems to me there’s a third dimension – slowly, social movements are extricating themselves from the claws of social democratic parties. Figures like Sanders, like Jeremy Corbin like Mélanchon emerge. This is the end of the left that came out of the 1920s. Potentially also however, it heralds the emergence of a new cycle of left organisations. And hopefully, down the line, the building of new organisations which carry the spirit of revolutionary Marxism and revolutionary socialism whilst seeking to avoid both the organisational weaknesses and the institutional mistakes that were made in the wake of the Russian revolution.
Now if that’s true then of course revisiting the Russian revolution and the entire era of the Russian revolution becomes important.
Not just the Russian Revolution
What we have to look at more carefully goes beyond simply the Russian revolution to other very important examples which have not been given as much importance by the revolutionary left over the past twenty years. In Lenin’s time, every Marxist, every socialist took it for granted that you must know the key historical events of the past hundred years like the back of your hand. And anybody in the Russian Social Democratic Party (whether Menshevik or Bolshevik) anybody in the German Social Democratic party, anybody in the French Socialist party, was intimately familiar with the French revolution, with the revolutions of 1848, with the Paris commune. It was simply understood that this was part of your political literacy.
That is not so much the case today. There is some degree of education but it’s really become more an avenue for bickering and name-calling than rational discussion and debate.
The organisational legacy of the Russian Revolution has three dimensions to it:
The issue of the internal structure of the political party that leads working class movements.
The relationship of the party to its base.Without this deep connection to the base, the commitment to party democracy becomes very, very hard to sustain. And this we have seen in the decades since the 1960s in the decline of the left. For a socialist and a Marxist party, the essential pre-condition is to bring people who you are training to follow class interests and build around those class interests.
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