Jenness, Barnesites, Styron

[Guarnot@xxxxxxx]

Louis wrote:

<< Since so many people had thrown their whole life
 into the party, when the party seemed rudderless, they might have felt
 rudderless as well. It was under those circumstances that Dan Styron took
 his life. The official explanation is that he was manic-depressive and
 suffered from painful stomach ailments. I don't know. All I do really know
 is that when word of his suicide went out, I felt deeply troubled.
  >>

Dan Styron was kind of like Peter Camejo without the flash.  He had the same
kind of talent for explaining things clearly, patiently and, as Louis, said,
lucidly.  But he was far more quiet and thus more readily approachable.  What
Camejo could do in speaking before a large group, Dan Styron could do by
talking to individuals.  He projected an air of sincerity--although I was not
close to him, I remember him from my days in LA, and I remember the sense
that he was the sort of person that made you think the SWP might actually be
for real.  Of course, in the SWP, sincerity and decency could easily consign
one to outcast status.

I am in no position to know Dan's medical or psychiatric history, of course.

On a separate note--Philip Ferguson's post that initially mentioned Dan
Styron also mentioned someone who had been a member of the "Gregorich/Passen
opposition" in the US SWP. What was this opposition--or would it have been
known by a different name?  (Granted, after a few decades, my memory may just
be slipping).  Was that the Proletarian Orientation Tendency?