marxism

Idk I get what the author is trying to say, but like, trying to pin these tendencies on this or that "tradition" just feeds into the sectarian impulse and buys time for any negative forces situated around these dynamics. Calling out third campism and sectarianism, and some of the silliness around Rockhill's arguments is fine and good, and yeah, sectarian tendencies desvended from Marcyism have problems. But that's for the Marcysists to work out. PSL is in crisis, which has generated some like renewed interest in Marcyism. Frankly if you're involved in any leftist partyist project, you're probably in crisis, and if not, recovering from one or heading toward one.

By all means, call out third campism and sectarianism, criticize it into absolute obscurity. But the task is not to become third campist and sectarian in the process. It is to engage more deeply and meaningfully in struggle, and from that engagement, develop the party. These tendencies are worthy of critique, as is every single thing. But these tendencies are not the problem, we are just now beginning to understand the problem and if you ask me, placing the blame on another tendency while failing to develop a practical alternative is the real problem.

Personally, I believe we have reached a structural tipping point in the nature of the struggle against capitalism for a working class party that is forcing these tendencies to critically develop and unalterably change. PSL, SAlt, maybe even CPUSA, and virtually very other left tendency were long stable and traditionally sound, now are racked by splits and revision of long held political limes. DSA, itself once a very particular and stable org has grown rapidly in recent years, driving the development of internal caucuses and tendencies, which frankly are practically all in crisis as well. The forces that developed the basis for DSA to become a mass party are dissolving into the mass. Meanwhile, the middle class nature of DSA is pushing the org back toward reformism.

It is much less interesting to me what troublesome tendencies of this or that left sect, than it is to identify and disseminate actual conditions of the struggle, toward a resolution of the fundamental challenges facing the organization of the working class against capitalism and the class interests of the capitalists.