#007 18th Brumaire | From Alpha to Omega

tags : [[Marx]] [[marxism]] [[politics]] [[political party]] [[Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]] [[revolution]]

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Notes

• Derek made the point that part of the power of [[social democrats]] comes from the streets, part from the government, but they never sum to be a singular power, and the government power tends to turn against the street power
• Derek said that confining yourself organizing [[nation states]] will result in either social democracy and [[nationalism]]. Communist political work must be international
• Derek said that [[Stalinists]] are [[rightists]] who you self-respecting leftists should not be in coalition with
• Derek said that if you don’t move beyond the nation state form, you’ll end up having the revolution subsumed and the revolutionaries replace the ruling class in some manner or another, leaving a half-finished revolution