Re: re AUT: Seeking info on Negri and Fortunadi

[Thomas Seay <entheogens@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- true leveller <digger_communist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I have been thinking about this for a while now.
> Obviously no-one wants to be sectarian, but how do
> we
> react to the Trotskyists (etc.)?

I think it is a good question.  Despite the ostensibly
lenient position that I put forward in my last email,
the truth is that I find myself engaging frequently in
trotskyist-bashing (when it comes to members of
"trotskyist" parties).  My fulminations came to a head
in the months following 9/11, when the trotskyists
 groups (most notably Workers World Party and the
International Socialist Organization) more or less
suceeded in taking control of the US anti-war
movement.
I found myself falling into old patterns of trying to
think up schemes to usurp their leadership.

As devious and fucked-up as these groups may be,
basically I was becoming like them by approaching the
issue in this way; it was certainly no way to start a
dialogue with members of their group who might be open
to alternatives.  All this to say, that I cannot offer
a model of how to deal with these groups...in fact, I
would say that due to my hot temper, I am awful at it.
 I hope "cooler" heads on this list will give their
suggestions!

Thomas

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-Karl Marx

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