Re: DSP

[Philip Ferguson <PLF13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Fidler wrote in relation to Jim Blaut:

> Jim himself posted to the List
> last July an excerpt from the book that dealt with Stalin's Marxism and the
> National Question, in answer to the centrist DSP of Australia, which has
> apparently embraced Stalin's 1913 approach.
>

As someone who has had plenty of disagreements with the DSP - most
especially over Yugoslavia and Timor - I still object to this kind of
characterisation of them as 'centrist'.  My arguments with them are
still arguments *within Marxism*, even though I worry about aspects of
their direction.  I take it to be a lapse on Richard Fidler's part to
use this terminology, but can we please just leave this kind of
characterisation off the list?

Philip Ferguson