Parker and Alex join Emil Jacobs of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands to discuss the factional struggle and expulsion of the Communist Platform group. They discuss the party’s bureaucratic centralism and opposition to open democratic struggle by the party’s parliamentary fraction. Should communists bother to try to push for principled politics within the broader workers movement? Why or why not? Emil also asks for context on the struggle for socialism in the US and the Democratic Socialists of America as well as Marxist Center groups.
Weekly Worker articles added for context and updates to the struggle within the Dutch SP:
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1323/bureaucratic-control-freakery/
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1325/youth-section-will-win/
