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DESCRIPTION:Though Karl Marx was central to many organizations, he never made a fetish 
 of them. He didn't try to hold on to even the very prominent International 
 Working Men's Association (IWA), which he called a "first attempt...no 
 longer realizable...after the fall of the Paris Commune." Contrary to those 
 who think Marx had no concept of a specifically Marxist organization, Marx 
 referred to his organization as "the party in the eminent historical sense" 
 in distinction from "ephemeral" forms of organization like even the IWA. 
 \n\nMarx's mention of the IWA as a "first attempt" was part of a ruthless 
 critique of a then new 1875 organization formed at Gotha--an attempt by 
 socialists to unify. Their organizational concept set the ground for 
 post-Marx-Marxist vanguard parties. Marx wanted nothing to do with their 
 national centered program. Many of its ideas, Marx wrote, were borrowed 
 from the statist socialism of Ferdinand Lassalle, whom Marx had called the 
 first "workers' dictator." \n\nMarx's view of Lassalle speaks to today's 
 appeal to fascist strongmen and hate-filled nationalism as a face of 
 opposition to globalized capitalism. At the same time, global 
 anti-capitalist movements on the ground are searching for a way out of our 
 total economic and ecological crises for which the fascists have no answer. 
 Can Marx's concept of organization as a recreation of Hegel's dialectic of 
 freedom help us re-think the concept of organization today, not alone as a 
 non-vanguard, non-statist negation of past "Marxist" organizations?\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790934.php
SUMMARY:Can a philosophy of freedom be organizational?
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790934.php
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