re: DSP and Greens

["Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Steve Painter
> I would go further and say the structure of the party was secondary to the
> socialist program, not the DSP program.

Sure.

> Jim had come around to the view that we didn't need the Red Book, just
> Socialism and Human Survival, or something like it.

Interesting.

> I do think now, that while the DSP remains a tight cadre organisation of
> the type it has become, it will never be a mass party.

This is, of course, true.  In fact, I don't think that the DSP will ever
become a mass party.  That is, a mass revolutionary party in Australia won't
be the DSP, or any other existing group, but something completely different.
But that doesn't mean that the DSP won't have a role in helping establish
it, or the conditions for it.

> I don't think I can tell you much more about the DSP, and would like to
> take a break from this thread for a while, if you don't mind. Dredging my
> memory for this is taking a lot of time and emotional energy and there are
> a few other things I have to do. But thanks for helping me to order some
> of this in my mind.

Sure.  I've found it very interesting, and have remembered a lot of stuff I
hadn't thought of for a long time, but yes, it is rather exhausting!

Alan Bradley
abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx








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