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  • Autumn 2008
Date Site Title Description
Dec 14 Kasama threads Community, engagement and moderation on Kasama Ben explains to the Kasama community why he is no longer allowed to post to the blog section of the Kasama site: Mike Ely (the moderator) believes Ben fails to respect the Kasama culture. (Update: Mike deleted Ben's post)
Dec 9 Kasama threads We need a living conception of workers' rule, not a stinking corpse Ben challenges Mike Ely to a debate on the nature of workers' rule and whether the concept makes any sense if workers will not have the fundamental democratic rights of speech and organization.
Dec 7 Kasama blog Tailing the Big Ships or Charting an Uncharted Course How reformism attempts to liquidate the progressive movements. Mike Ely, Carl Davidson and Ben.
Dec 1 Kasama blog Collision Course: Building Anti-Imperialism After the Elections Ben agrees with the criticism that Five Ridges makes of Carl Davidson's reformism. Ben also points to the contradiction between the need for discussion and the need for confrontation. Ben has several posts in this thread.
Nov 30 Kasama blog Rick Wolff: Socialism’s New American Opportunity Rick Wolff argues that the left needs to rethink what "socialism" is. I agree. However I disagree with his particular conclusions.

Nov 25		 Kasama blog Bill Martin’s Rubber & Glue 4: Dead-Ends in Science & the Science of Dead-Ends Bill Martin appears tooppose the goal of a revolutionary mass organization. I think he is mistaken--but before I can reply to him--I need to ask him to better explain his thinkng and arguments.

Nov 16		 Kasama threads Kasama's future and the need for mass democracy, How do we make good on our potential ? This is the post that Mike removed from the blog thread (see Nov 11 thread below) for supposedly being too lengthy and having a lecturing tone.
Nov 12 Kasama blog Mike Ely: The Strange Way It Started Fresh Five questions and seven answers related to creating a mass revolutionary organziation and Kasama's future direction
Nov 12 Kasama threads The "sects" of Marxist theory... I made two posts (on page 2 of the thread). I replied to Andrei and to Chegitz.
Nov 12 Kasama threads Leninist Party Building, What is it? Iris asked about "Leninist party building" and "democratic centralism" and what these terms mean in relation to the tasks for Kasama. I guess I have been waiting for someone to be interested in this.
Nov 12 Kasama threads What's the place for authority in the future rev?, Opening a debate on Anarchism and Communism New Day asked about some of the contradictions in theory between communism and anarchism. I briefly described the anarcho-leninist debate on the state
Nov 11 Kasama blog Kasama Plans: Summing Up, Moving On, Digging In I made 4 posts to this thread. Some were delayed by moderation and one was deleted. It can be seen here. There is also a substantive post on this thread by Nando in which he points out that there different models of revolutionary organization and the best model depends on the tasks that are most important and the times and conditions.
Oct 24 Kasama blog Bill Martin On Conception & Collectivity: Pt. 5 New Forms After an Exhausted Project Bill Martin said: "I don’t know what the next phase of organization will look like, though I am willing to work with others who believe in a communist future and a revolutionary road toward it to figure this out." I replied with a link to my How to Build the Party of the Working Class article. My post was held up in moderation for three days until the thread was dead. I got no reply.

  • Spring - Summer 2008
Title or topic Topic / Who participated
How to build the party Mike gave me a topic page to present my views on how to build the party of the working class. Unfortunately the comments and discussion reflected a fairly low level of interest in this topic. (March 2008)
Election Illusions, McCain’s Attraction, and Revolutionary Hope Ben, Frank and autocritique take on Mike Ely on the question of reformism. (Feb 2008)
Ben Seattle's views Mike gave me a topic page to give my views on our long-term goals. (Feb 2008)
Rescuing Lenin from the Leninists Chegitz Guevara gives his own take on Cargo-Cult Leninism. (March 2008)
A rough overview of our theoretical project John Steele outlines his views on the questions of revolutionary strategy, understanding and history that must be part of the organizational, theoretical and practical plans for developing a revolutionary project. (April 2008)
Welcome to Kasama Ben and Mike Ely exchange opinions concerning the Kasama project. Ben outlines his "three point program for Kasama".
The Kasama-RCP polemic Most of the RCP's criticism of Kasama is ********. But one of their central criticisms appears to be correct. Mike Ely and the Kasama community do not appear to be focused on building organization or taking up the tasks which are decisive. (May 2008)



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