Re: Forwarded from Steve Painter

["Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Steve Painter
> There was quite a bit more to Peter Camejo's document than
> ''anti-party nonsense". I have an electronic copy, and I can post it
> to the list if people want to judge for themselves about the state of
> Camejo's brain and his political trajectory at that time. I think it
> showed he was prepared to use his grey matter, which probably
> frightened some DSPers who had let theirs go rusty.

It would be good to have another look at the document.  From memory, though,
it was just more of the same kind of stuff various DSP leaders had been
saying over the previous few years, as they had been walking out the door.
It was a wasted opportunity:  Camejo could have said something useful, but
instead all we got was more of the same old stuff that everyone else who
had succumbed to "The Death of Communism" came out with.

> >From your response to the document, I'd say it's a fair bet that by
> the time it reached the members it was accompanied by a response from
> the national leadership with lots of familiar, comforting phrases so
> that all those hard-working paper sellers and dinner-dance organisers
> didn't have to stop their vital activities to think too hard about
> it. There were probably some "political reports" to branch meetings
> so busy members didn't feel too obliged to take the time to read it,
> let alone think about it.

Not in Brisbane.

The issues that it raised had been discussed many times before.  There was
nothing new.

My recollection may be faulty, so it would be worthwhile seeing the document
again.

Alan Bradley
abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx




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