Out of the void, onto the stage
The Partisans Magazine is excited to publish the second podcast of our Culture Committee. This episode looks at the Star Wars series, Andor, a series directed by Tony Gilroy on what it means to live a revolutionary life. One could feel Huey Newton’s metaphorical ghost whispering in the background.
Rebel music, rebel culture.
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We should not think that our limited individual or local practice will lead us to direct answers about revolutionary strategy or change. We should look at practice as social practice and most of what we will learn from is in fact indirect experience, tying together experiences over time and geographical space. Again this is not at the level of abstraction, it is an argument for how we arrive at correct strategies.
It is necessary that development and sovereignty take root along socialist lines with fundamental changes both in the system of ownership of the means of production (land, resources, technology, factories) and the relations of production (between workers and management, rural and urban, mental and manual labor). Without development and sovereignty emerging along specifically socialist lines, the majority of people are still left behind.
If we approach “development” purely from the perspective of accumulation of wealth, expansion of production, and successful competition (for profit and markets) on the world state — well, in that “classless” (but really bourgeois!) analysis, China’s revisionists have been “successful.”
But we need to approach it from the class stand of the proletarians and poor farmers internationally: The last half century in China has been a counterrevolutionary horror — especially those pinned into the vast lower classes of workers and farmers).
If capitalism is dying, then there is a struggle over what will come next.
Since the death of Mao and the implementation of market driven reforms that have come afterward, China has become a rare story of successful economic development, while in the once dominant capitalist West there has often been stagnation and decline.
The Partisans Magazine is excited to present a new podcast from our Culture Committee. The first episode looks at the Netflix series Mo and its influence on the class struggle in the U.S. and internationally.