Clenched fist salute to Axeris; here are some links to blah blah blah about unity (RSP+SAlt=SAlt) on the Australian (Marxist) left. Note that at their weekend conference, SAlt agreed that the RSP was tops and could totally join them.
• What politics to unite Australia’s left?, December 8, 2012 (Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance)
• A response to “What politics to unite Australia’s left?”, December 14, 2012 (Mick Armstrong, Socialist Alternative)
• What can be the basis of unity on the left?, December 14, 2012 (Allen Myers, Direct Action/Revolutionary Socialist Party)
• Building unity and a stronger left [PDF], December 2012 (Solidarity National Committee)
Elsewhere:
• Socialist Alternative Australia: Strange sort of unity, December 13, 2012 (Weekly Worker/Communist Party of Great Britain)
• Australian pseudo-left backs imperialist intervention in Syria, December 14, 2012 (Patrick O’Connor and Nick Beams/Socialist Equality Party)
As for me, I’m still waiting a response from SAlt to this.
See also : Trot Guide November 2012 Update (November 1, 2012).
There’s been some interesting discussion (for the spotter without any social life at least!) on Tad Tietze’s Facebook profile. This for example:
Spotters will also find the discussion thread that follows entertaining.
Kieran, this is a fascinating review of the latest skit by our friends in SAlt and the RSP. And throwing in a tidbit of Gramsci the way you did, like a prolix exclamation point, was quite inspired. Your piece certainly stirred some profound dialectical cogitations in my tired old mind.
However, a question remains for me, a question that has tormented my spirit for many decades, and for which I have never been able to receive a satisfactory answer: Who won the game of chess between Comrade Lenin and Tristan Tzara at the Cafe de la Terrasse in Zurich in 1916?
Some say it was a draw. Some say it couldn’t reach a proper conclusion because each played by different rules. Some say it’s not important. But to my mind it represents the most urgent question of our age: Is a dialectical synthesis between Marxism and Dada a practical possibility TODAY? And if so, would everything we’ve ever believed about our beloved revolutionary praxis be turned on its wooden head?
My apologies, Kieran, I erroneously credited you with authorship of the above review. Credit must go to Tad Tietze. The ways of Dada are mysterious indeed.
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