Category: Theory and Practice
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Affirm and Hold to the Primary Tasks
By: Owen OakThe purpose of this article is to orient communists in the Salt Lake Area particularly toward the practical tasks that must be undertaken if a revolutionary movement is to be built at all, and to correct persistent strategic errors that have repeatedly derailed such efforts. On one side, sections of the left assume that the…
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What is a communist?
By: Owen OakTo be a communist is to immerse oneself in the living, breathing movement of history, not to stand as a passive admirer of an abstract ideal. As Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels declared in The German Ideology (1845), communism is “the real movement which abolishes the present state of things,” rooted in the material…
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Breaking Through: Strategies for a Militant Labor Movement
By: Owen Oakthis piece was written with contributions from K. Oliver. The discourse within leftist circles about the strategic importance of organizing in certain sectors remains a contentious topic. For example, some on the left argue that service workers hold little revolutionary potential, emphasizing instead the power of traditional heavy industry due to its direct influence over…
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SLC’s Other Side Village and the Industrialization of Homelessness
By: K. OliverDrawing comparisons to the Military and Prison Industrial Complexes, K. Oliver argues that the tendency of SLC’s new tiny home village will be towards the exacerbation of the social crisis it purportedly aims to resolve.
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Stop Protesting, Start Demonstrating: Revolutionary Strategy and Tactics in the 21st Century
By: Comrade NWhat has become of the “demonstration”? Why don’t we hear this word more often? Let’s talk about it.
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The Communist Organization, Mass Organization, The Unit, and The Cadre.
By: Owen OakThis document covers the basic bodies that we seek to build; Mass Organizations rooted within the working class, and a Communist Organization that exercises leadership within them democratically through Cadre, organized into Units.