Re: DSP

[Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip Ferguson wrote:

> 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

Why to keep it off the list? What is DSP's real position? I know very little
about DSP folks, except their position on Yugo and Timor.


cheers,


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SUNY at Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
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