Re: A defense worse than the deed

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 3:32 PM 7/23/96, Louis R Godena wrote:

>This involves the fact that,  as far as some list members are concerned,
>there are some revolutionaries whose lives have achieved a patina of
>respectability,  almost celebrity,  while there are others whose lives,
>clearly,  do not matter.
>
>That is the issue.

We've been full of declarations recently that something or other is *the*
issue. Now celebrity and its absence are the crucial issues. A lot further
>from the real issues - which center, seems to me, around the nature of the
capitalist social order and the best strategy for its transformation - than
the damn Stalin vs. Trotsky slugfest.

Doug

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