Kamran Nayeri: The Crisis of Civilization and How to Resolve It

I just read this brilliant man's summary of his long experience with Trotskyist organizations and in particular the American Socialist Workers Party still led by cult leader Jack Barnes. Yes, the permanent crisis of capitalism has become a more general crisis of CIVILIZATION. Very interesting quote on Kamran Nayeri's long experience on the once Trotskyist oriented American Socialist Workers Party still led or misled by the now 84-year-old cult leader Jack Barnes. Always an INDEPENDENT democratic socialist I was tangential to the party for a few years. In 1976 serving as a presidential elector for Peter Camejo campaign here in Rhode Island. I and a fine woman named Annette Gagne served as presidential electors for the Socialist Workers Party here in 1980 during the dramatic Iranian Revolution. At the same time, I read Democratic " socialist " ( ? ) Senator Bernie Sanders served as the SWP presidential elector in nearby Vermont. I still believe that Karl Marx's understanding of the logic of the capitalist system and of capitalist exploitation of the working class is just about as SCIENTIFIC as possible in any scholarly research. However, the POLITICS of class struggle is not yet as scientific more than a century after the iconic " Ten Days That Shook The World " Russian Revolution as weather prediction. Anyway, a hurricane is more likely to be " around the corner " than proletarian upheaval. SOCIALISM just needs a much wider base! Neither historical materialism nor Engel's " Dialectics of Nature " today seem naive to me. Apart from the Crisis of Civilization there seems to be a " crisis of science ". Too many scientists cannot free themselves from the intellectual tyranny (and considerable economic pressure) of the bourgeoisie. But I will add that the biggest mistake of the old Soviet Union was not SOCIALISM. It was making THE STATE " officially atheist " strangling FREE SPEECH and FREE THOUGHT. Note that the WOKE WARRIOR " liberal " Democrats (dominated by secular ZIONIST Jews) never miss an opportunity to mock Christianity, especially Catholicism, and religion in general with venomous hostility to Islam. To be sure, alienating billions of religious people all over the world is no way to build a mass socialist " vanguard party. " [ "My hope is to encourage the reader to engage in a deeper, more analytical, theoretical and historical inquiry into the problem of socialism and social and institutional agencies necessary for its realization in the twenty first century. Given the anthropogenic crisis of nature that 10,000 years of class society and over two centuries of fossil fuel powered capitalist industrialization have caused, we are running out of time to affect a radical social change worldwide to bring harmony among ourselves and with nature of which we are nothing more than a small part. " ] Kamran Nayeri