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What sort of organisation/party/network do we need:
In my opinion, there is no answer to the above question; it depends upon the precise circumstances in a particular country at a particular time. Furthermore, unlike many socialists, I don’t see one organisation as the answer; there can be advantages to having a range of organisations adopting a range of strategies (but preferably not being too sectarian to each other), all playing a role in transforming society.
A particular problem in Britain at the current time is too many similarly broad organisations hiding the fact that most of their participants hold revolutionary views, at a time when the capitalist economic crisis (especially in the eurozone and the USA) self-destructing, presenting great opportunities to revolutionary socialists, that could otherwise be filled by the far right.
Social networking presents new oportunities to cut across sectarianism between political organisations, encouraging dialogue and organising together. Some organisations argue for mass parties, whether reformist (as the Socialist Party argues for via the Campaign for a New Workers’ Party, although they would try to get it to adopt a transitional programme as called for by Leon Trotsky) or revolutionary (which the SWP hopes to become), but the upcoming second banking crisis (where whole countries default on their debts) will probably take place before such mass parties can be built.
I wrote the above to provoke discussion at a very important time. Discuss it on the Very Democratic Socialism Facebook group or a Facebook note I created and posted in various places.
