The Socialist Network

Peer(-to-peer) review of Marxism

Marxists and peer-to-peer activists discuss about the new society.

The following is a revised transcript of a discussion that took place on May 3, 2012 between Michel Bauwens, Jonathan Clyne, Alex Dirmeier, Lena Hanno and Jean Lievens on peer-to-peer and Marxism.

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This document deals with the question of how socialists should relate to the mass organisations of working people. It argues that socialists need to be active wherever working people are.
... That means that we
should work in all their organisations, including both social democratic and broad left parties. In doing so we should strive to democratise and energise these organisations, uniting them together in a positive struggle to defend our
conditions and to transform society along democratic
socialist lines.
... The document correctly
forecast the shift to the left that has now taken place in the British Labour Party.
... The pamphlet was agreed by an international meeting of the Socialist Network and is now in its second edition.

Socialists and the Mass Organisations