Marxism belongs
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-03-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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workers Irritated by the muddle-headedness of his supposed co-thinkers in France in the 1880s, Marx once declared that 'what is certain is that lam no Marxist".
One can imagine his horror at the situation today, in which 'Marxism' has become the official ideology of repressive Stalinist states spanning Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, whole chunks of Asia, and Cuba; and where slightly varying types of 'Marxism' are proclaimed by the treacherous leaders of official Communist, Parties in almost every capitalist country.
Theories which emerged as the scientific basis of proletarian revolution; theories which fearlessly criticised, analysed, exposed and debunked the existing order, offering workers the basıs of an independent world-view representing their own class interests, have been hi-jacked, neutered, perverted, inverted, rendered semi-mystical, and used to justify and preserve the existence of privileged ruling bureaucracies -and their international hangers-on.
To take a stand in defence of Marxism today means to wage a struggle against Stalinism, a struggle begun in earnest by Trotsky and the Left Opposition sixty years ago in 1923.