Re: DSP

[Green Left Parramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A perfect opening for me to urge comrades visit the DSP web site at
http://www.dsp.org.au -- heaps of  new content in the DSP documents page. One
person's centrist is another person's revolutionary! Richard's characterisation 
is
one of the nicer one's I've heard on this list at times/

Norm.

Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx wrote:

> 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,
>
> Xxxx
>
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