Bombastic, “dogmatic instead of critical”
The last sixty years (though not the previous history of Marxist movements) have seen several precedents for the current frenzy of the Socialist Appeal group (about to rename itself Revolutionary Communist Party). All those essays ended sorrily, but they were nearer realism than the “RCP” today. Issue 4 (14 March) of The Communist has “theses” claiming that “capitalism is in terminal decline” and “the youth are completely open to radical, revolutionary, and especially communist ideas”. Thus, in this “year of Lenin”, the “RCP” can reach 10,000 members, become a “mass party”, and look to “the...