Spring break

 

I sometimes read stuff like this. Don´t ask me why. In the links below, a small and sectarian Trotskyist faction (the Internationalist Group) punches on a somewhat larger but equally sectarian Trotskyist faction (the Revolutionary Communists of America). Since I blogged about the latter outfit several times before, I might as well continue! 

I kind-of-agree with one aspect of the polemic: the international tendency the RCA are in solidarity with, known as the RCI, really has flip-flopped politically in quite a dramatic fashion. So has the RCA themselves. From critical support to Bernie Sanders (or at least the movement around him) and attempts to influence the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to a kind of bizarre hyper-activism for "Communism" pure and simple.

In left-wing radical politics, this kind of "street recruitment" strategy usually doesn´t work, except for shorter periods, after which the organization collapses back to its small membership numbers as the new recruits grow tired of the cultic super-activism and simply leave. This is especially the case if the street recruitment itself *is* the program. Those familiar with the far left may know about the "Healyites" and "Northites". And yes, the RCI seems to be on exactly this trajectory.

Not that I care, to be honest, but it´s fascinating to see how the far left makes the same mistakes, over and over again, decade after decade. It´s almost as if they don´t really want to succeed... 

Of course, the Internationalist Group won´t succeed either. But we knew that already.     

Cosplay Communism?

RCA/IMT´s long history of supporting cop "unions"