Note: This piece was published before rs21 was established as an independent organisation in January 2014. rs21 was founded by a group of people who had been in the opposition within the SWP and who left in response to its persistent mishandling of rape and sexual harassment allegations against a leading member.
‘Adapt or Die?!’
Luke Evans •Luke Evans continues the debate that began in the International Socialism Journal on sexuality. Writing in response to a piece by Terry Sullivan he takes on the notion of “Primitive Communism”.
The revolutionary struggle is therefore not only a struggle to relieve ourselves from the immediate muck and squalor of a system built on exploitation and alienation, it is also a historical process that will illuminate in it’s victory the contingent nature of class society. In this sense, what we call communism is the inevitable outcome of a successful revolutionary workers movement, but the importance for us as revolutionaries here and now is that this victory is not guaranteed by anything other than the activity of the workers themselves. So, whilst we know where we are heading, we cannot predict if, or when, and perhaps how, we will get
► Read “’Adapt or Die?!’; Response to Terry Sullivan” here.
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