AhoraNow NO. 5
Publishing on the Terrain of the Bourgeois Culture Industry and Crisis in the Socialist Project
AhoraNow no. 5 was published in 1998 in commemoration of the 150 year anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto. Delegates from the Labor/Community Strategy Center—Lian Hurst Mann, Martin Hernandez, Rita Burgos, and Eric Mann—traveled to Paris to participate in an international gathering “The Communist Manifesto, 150 years later,” May 13-16, 1998.
“Seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger....Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.”
—Walter Benjamin, "Thesis on the Philosophy of History"As we gather in Paris to reflect on the role of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in shaping a century and a half of debate over the path to socialism, I want to discuss the problematic of how to conduct revolutionary education in the absence of an organized international socialist movement, and, in particular, the absence of a progressive party (much less Communist) in the United States.
