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DebatesThe Activist Volume 18 #1 April 2008
Click here to download a pdf of the DSP's internal bulletin The Activist, Vol 18, #1, which reprints all the reports adopted by the DSP Congress in January 2008 and all counter-reports presented to the Congress by the Leninist Party Faction (LPF). All votes for each report are also noted.
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Determining the class nature of the stateBy Simon Butler, Adelaide branch [The following is a constribution to the DSP's internal discussion on Venezuela's revolution.] Comrade Marce Cameron’s recent article “The State and Revolution in Venezuela” (Marce Cameron, The Activist Vol 17, # 1) contains a lengthy discussion on the Marxist view of the state and the class nature of Venezuelan state in particular. As part of his discussion Comrade Marce introduces a new but mistaken criteria for identifying for class nature of a state.
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The state and revolution in VenezuelaBy Marce Cameron, Syndey branch [The following is a constribution to the DSP's internal discussion on Venezuela's revolution.] Comrade Stuart Munckton’s discussion contribution “Venezuela’s battle in the countryside and the ‘revolution within the revolution’” (The Activist Volume 16, No. 8) takes up the important question of the class nature of the Venezuelan state.
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Venezuela's battle in the countryside and the 'revolution within the revolution'By Stuart Munckton, Sydney branch [The following is a constribution to the DSP's internal discussion on Venezuela's revolution.] In mid-September, the Ezquiel Zamora National Campesino Front (FNCEZ), one of the two major peasant organisations in Venezuela, released a statement entitled “Let us fight the neoliberals who have infiltrated the revolution”, in response to the arrest of a number of peasants by police for their role in a FNCEZ-organised occupation of the Corporation of the Andes central offices. CorpoAndes is a state institution whose role is to oversee economic development in the region.
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After the elections: Assessing Venezuela's Bolivarian revolutionBy Stuart Munckton [The general line of this report was adopted unanimously on February 12 by the DSP's National Executive.] The victory in the December electionsThe victory of President Hugo Chavez in the December 3 presidential elections, on an explicit platform of creating socialism, was a major victory in the class struggle in Venezuela, and it opens the way to a new phase in the struggle to decisively deepen the revolution, breaking the political power of the objectively pro-capitalist state bureaucracy, and the economic power of the capitalist class. This victory cannot be understood either in purely electoral terms, or in a purely “Chavista versus opposition” framework.
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Was Milosevic's Serbia socialist?By Mike Karadjis
[This article was posted in six parts on the Marxmail list as part of an intense debate on Kosova, Croatia, Serbia and the process of the collapse of Yugoslavia. Michael Karadjis is the author of Bosnia, How the CPA Exposes the DSP's 'Trotskyism'The Activist - Volume 10, Number 7, August 2000By Doug Lorimer (Sydney West branch)The Communist Party of Australia has recently published a pamphlet by David Matters entitled Putting Lenin's Clothes on Trotskyism which claims that the DSP's rejection of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution is really a cover for its support for Trotskyism. However, the real purpose Imperialist Economism, Democracy and the Socialist Revolution: A response from Doug LorimerThe Activist - Volume 10, Number 2, February 2000By Doug Lorimer "Capitalism and imperialism can be overthrown only by economic revolution. They cannot be overthrown by democratic transformations, even the most `ideal'. But a proletariat not schooled in the struggle for democracy is incapable of performing an economic revolution. Capitalism cannot be vanquished without taking over the banks, without repealing private ownership of the means of production. These revolutionary measures, however, cannot be implemented without organising the entire people for democratic administration of the means of production captured from the bourgeoisie, without enlisting the entire mass of the working people, the proletarians, semi-proletarians and small peasants, for the democratic organisation of their ranks, their forces, their participation in state affairs." -- V.I. Lenin, Reply to P. Kievsky (Y. Pyatakov) (September 1916) February 2000: Either A 'Socialist Revolution Or A Make-Believe Revolution: A Rejoinder to Doug LorimerThe Activist - Volume 10, Number 2, February 2000By Phil Hearse "The International of Crime and Treason [i.e., the counter-revolutionary co-ordination of imperialism - PH] has in fact been organised. On the other hand, the indigenous bourgeoisies have lost all their capacity to oppose imperialism -- if they ever had it -- and they have become the last card in the pack. There are no other alternatives: either a socialist revolution or a make-believe revolution." -- Ernesto Che Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental 1967. (my emphasis) November 1999: In Defence of Lenin's Marxist Policy of a Two-Stage, Uninterrupted RevolutionThe Activist - Volume 9, Number 8, November 1999By Doug Lorimer"From the democratic revolution we shall at once, and precisely in accordance with the measure of our strength, the strength of the class conscious and organised proletariat, begin to pass to the socialist revolution. We stand for uninterrupted revolution. We shall not stop half way... we shall bend every effort to help the entire peasantry achieve the democratic revolution, in order thereby to make it easier for us, the party of the proletariat, to pass on as quickly as possible to the new and higher task -- the socialist revolution." (V.I. Lenin, Social-Democracy's Attitude to the Peasant Movement, September 1905) 
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