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trade-unionism was addicted to the status quo

[...] Trade-unionism, by its very nature, was addicted to the status quo. Its dialectic of partial conquests--if we ask for more we might lose what we have already won--made it a defensive, conservative and insufficient force. [...]

—p.viii Introduction to the April Theses (iii) by Tariq Ali
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Jacobin

Lenin [...] had insisted the only credible goal was to turn the imperialist war into a civil war. The enemy was at home. Another manifestation of Jacobin voluntarism, his opponents had mocked.

—p.vii Introduction to the April Theses (iii) by Tariq Ali
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the problem is not North versus South

I think the first step towards that is to see that the fundamental problem these days is not North versus South, the fundamental problem is that in any country where working people try to raise their voice, the first power they come up against and they have to confront is their own ruling classes.

—p.87 Uneven and Combined Development From Below (81) by Vivek Chibber