Viewpoint | Socialist Action 1983

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Socialist Action distributes material of international socialist organisations including InternaViewpoint, which is a completely unique international Marxist publication, as well as that of national organisations. Without starting off with an international programme no progress can be made in developing a programme for Britain.

If, however, mains at a purely international level then it is hopeless Il ls tar loc abstract and therefore not a programme, a guide for specific action, in the real sense at all. Furthermore each country does not show simply "general' feature of capitalism which are the same for every country combined with "specific' are added on to a common 'model' -which is the type of analysis presented by the Communist Party. Each country, and each situation, is completely and absolutely specific and unique. A part of the essence of politics is to understand that uniqueness and act on that basis. Stalin Trotsky put it in the introduction Revolution, polemicising with Stalin as follows: 'It is false that the world economy is simply a sum of national parts of one and the same type. It is false that the specific features are "merely supplementary to the general features

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Socialist Action 10 Oct 1986