Re: marxism-digest V1 #2613

["Geoff Collier" <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> marxism-digest       Sunday, September 17 2000       Volume 01 : Number
2613
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> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:24:48 -0400
> From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Reactionary petty-bourgeois strikes?
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> Owen:
> >The position of the SWP on the domestic class struggle
> >is that if there is a picket or a protest of some form which is not led
by
> >some far-Right organisation, then the revolution is a few steps closer
(in
> >proportion to the size of the protest).
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> Citation, please.
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> Louis Proyect
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To judge from Owen's diatribe, I expect even one citation to take some time
since he does not appear to read Socialist Worker. If he did he would notice
several things. Firstly "Is Struggle A Threat To Democracy" was not an
editorial but a secondary article (why Louis posted that particular one is
another question). Secondly, he would have read the editorial (What We
Think) entitled "His (i.e. Blair's) Week of Discontent and possibly
discovered that his opinion is almost the same as the SWP (although I think
I can detect a certain softness on Blair)

As far as I can see, in the attempt to chart an independent course between
the goverrnment and the blockaders, the SWP has been a little isolated from
other left groups. That would suggest we didn't try to intervene in the
blockades and there was nothing in the internal messages about it. Who
invented the story?

Anyway, if Owen can come up with examples (better than the laughable attempt
of David Walsh) to show why we allegedly have a "revolution next week"
perspective perhaps he can can explain them. I suggest he looks at the
activity in the Socialist Alliances, the possibility of members in Scotland
joining  the Scottish Socialist Party and the attempts to unify the left in
trade unions like UNISON, NUT, PCS and NATFHE.

geoff