kites: a journal of communist theory and strategy #2

kites journal #2

by Organization of Communist Revolutionaries

In this issue, we follow this opening editorial, written shortly after the outbreak of rebellions in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by police, with a short intervention from our Editorial Committee into the current movement against police brutality and the oppression of Black people, entitled “Defund, Abolish...but what about Overthrow?” In it, we compare and contrast current calls to “defund” or “abolish” the police with a communist understanding of their role and the need to overthrow the system they enforce.

Unknown Binding

Published October 1, 2020

Reviews

[Canyon Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Things Done Changed pt. 2 was solid. Greatly appreciative of efforts to conceptualize what classes of people are ideal for building our base, and all the more thanks to the authors for the continual move away from the productive laborers being more essential than service workers in building a communist movement. Several unique insights, such as China's lessons learned from falters within the USSR under Stalin, which finally explained the persistent appreciation of the cultural revolution by Maoist groups as a form of upheaval within a proletarian revolution that - with its excesses - was meant to address the repressive state apparatus developed by the Soviets. Very well put together and not clunky.