Are Trots basically the scholar-monks of communism? (hexbear.net)

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you know haha funny 5 person book club, selling papers, marxists.org

but if we are in the "dark age" of leftism currently are they the equivalent of Irish monks copying ancient Marxist texts for safekeeping?

maybe those 5 person book clubs are monastic circles with complex scholarly initiation rites

those papers, well somebody has got to retain the skills to publish physical media

and marxists.org is basically the marxism library of alexandria

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

no, but the bordigists are:

The movement, even if it is weak in terms of numbers of adherents, that works on its newspapers, on its meetings, on holding factory discussions, to free revolutionary theory from unprecedented adulterations, from opportunist contaminations, thus performs a revolutionary labor, a labor for the proletarian revolution. (Activism)

🫡 to our wonderful revolutionary librarians

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

And such comfy armchairs!

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