Re: A Question to Members of ...

[CKates@xxxxxxx]

Jeff, I thought it wasn't back to this again! Well, I'll make a preliminary
statement: I will not say the number 21 if at all possible in any posts
related to you.

In a message dated 96-01-30 17:51:20 EST, Jeff Booth  writes:

>       Charlotte,
>                  You are a truly frightening Stalinoid.  I insist that
>when you start rounding up "anti-party" types that you include me too.
>Otherwise, I'll be terribly insulted.

 Well, so now I'm not only a "stalinoid", but a frightening one too! I would
really like to know how you get "rounding up the anti-party types" from my
statement that "I have better things to do than answer questions which are
nothing more than a pathetic anti-party attempt to end discussion of issues
and struggle..." The only thing these have in common is the word
"anti-Party".

>       
>       Carlos, I salute you in your attempt to knock-down the weeds of
>Stalinism which have choked our movement in the past.
>       

I can't salute anyone or anything of which the purpose is simply to wage
wholesale attacks on my Party. I wouldn't say that it was your so-called
"Stalinism" choking any movements. Instead it is lack of unity, which is not
fostered by my party which seeks broad, mass coalitions for fightback. It is
fostered by people who, instead of being comradely in their criticism as Marc
Luzietti has proposed, are criticizing not to be productive, or to improve
the struggle--instead to get the CP!

Jeff:
> I look forward to
>the day when working people take power using genuine marxist ideas and
>methods.

Charlotte:
So do I. However, I don't say it simply to imply that anyone else's org is
non-Marxist. I say it because I truly want to see a workers' state arise. I
truly want to bring about socialism.

Jeff:
>       (Sheesh!  With market socialism on one hand and Stalinism on the
>other... I guess no one said Socialism was going to be easy... ).
>
>                               -- Jeff Booth   


Well, I didn't think bringing about socialism was easy. I also however, am
certain that socialism will come. It is inevitable. And no amount of
"anti-Stalinist" counterproductive writing is going to stop that, no matter
how much the bourgeoisie want it to.

Comradely,
Charlotte, AKA once more as the newly frightening Stalinoid!


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