Upcoming Red Start: Politics in Command

Join Red Star Thursday October 1 at 5:00 PT / 8:00 ET pm for our next Red Start on Politics in Command: A Taxonomy on Economism by J. Moufawad-Paul (JMP). In this sharp polemic, JMP dissects the phenomenon of "economism," first identifying it as not a theory but a "non-position" that pervades the majority of the socialist movement despite its actors believing otherwise. He argues economism has become normative within the imperialist metropoles such as the United States in part due to the prevalence of the labor aristocracy — the stratum of workers materially invested in imperialism who would rather reproduce themselves as a privileged strata of the working class than abolish themselves as a class, i.e., fight for communism.

The solution, JMP articulates, is to take up the task of determining the potentially revolutionary proletariat within the working class through social investigation, recruiting its advanced sections, and building the revolutionary vanguard. To overcome capitalism, we must first break free from economism in all its manifestations and put Politics in Command.