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Politics in Command: Analyzing the Error of Economism

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Lenin's Revisionism Is a Pillar of Modern Revisionism

Modern revisionism assumes that the over valorization of economic struggle will spontaneously generate a politics that will result in socialism. It's ultimately neo-reformists and that it believes that fighting for reforms in the economic sphere will leave the socialism rather than a structural revolution or politics. The traditional solution to the problem of communism which is just push trade union consciousness towards revolutionary consciousness by focusing on the trade unions circulating amongst them doesn't overcome the problem, he says. Lenin pointed out that the working class's consciousness in itself was simply aimed at bettering this class's lot under capitalism and struggling merely for you know kind of a way to dampen make better everyday capital its violence.

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