Re: Pathfinder Inc

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> You "forget" that Marx and Engels's entire lifetime of political
activity
> consisted largely of propaganda work through printed media. In fact,
as soon
> as a revolution broke out in Germany in 1848, the FIRST thing they
did was
> to dissolve their party, the Communist League.

Interesting. The SWP is called the Communist League in Canada. I'll
recognize them among the top radicals in the country when they
dissolve in the same manner you describe.

Honestly Jose, I didn't have anything against these comrades until I
was tld to defend the European Worker's States at one of their
meetings. I laughed, thinking it was an inside joke about the former
state of the Trotskyist movement, but left a shortly after I
discovered it was a confession about the state of this party. It
wasn't until I hade been on this list awhile that I realised they
actually had a history that was somewhat worth being proud of. I
thought they were worse than the Sparts when I encountered them a few
years back, to be honest.

At any rate, I can tell you that I run into activists all the time
that I have met in
the last few years. Many (not most) of the Reds have quit the parties
they were tied to when I met them. Of these, only the Barnesites have
no party (or politics, to speak of) today, while the others are indies
or or in other sects/parties.

The idea that going from $4.50 to $50.00 (us) could be reasonable is
rather disturbing. How so? Do we have any reason to believe that the
CL is wrong when they tell me "Collector's items"? If them marking up
a book to this price was reasonable for a Marxist movement to do, why
did the Canadian CP keep the price at $6.50? The honesty of the
Cominform?

Macdonald