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On the Meaning of Revolution feat. C. Derick Varn (Part II)

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The Blonchius Theory of Revolutionary Leadership

The Blonchius position kind of leads one into this same quagmire that I see a lot of fourth international Trotskyists have, which is to not necessarily see the need to theorize a politicized contradiction with reigning forms of liberalism. There's a reason why Marx said that the Paris commune would not get anywhere, because there was not an inkling of socialist organization, a part of it. So it was ultimately a big negative lesson for the left, right? Huge, hugely negative lesson, but a lot was learned from it. You know what I mean? It was an interesting intervention in my opinion,. But you know, look, yeah, I think the Blonch

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