In this session, we will consider questions such as: is it accurate to say that capitalism is in terminal decline? What is really at stake in the struggle of the working class to defend itself? What are the main obstacles to the development of the struggle?
In the afternoon we are planning to organise a discussion around a more general topic. We are looking at various possible themes but are open to further suggestions, and to offers from all directions to make the initial presentations. Last year all the discussions were presented by comrades who are not ICC members, and we would like to do the same this year. So far we have considered:
- How do we get from capitalism to communism? What does a revolution look like? What is the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’? How can capitalist relations of production be overturned?
- The threat to the global environment: what do Marxists say about the causes of the problem, and its solutions?
- The origins of the oppression of women. When did it all begin? Can revolutionaries look to the findings of anthropology to come up with any answers?
- Marxism and science: what is their relationship? Is there a ‘proletarian’ science opposed to ‘bourgeois’ science?
For more details see this forum post: http://en.internationalism.org/forum/1056/alf/7391/come-day-discussion