RE: [Marxism] I don't think "unconditional" means "immediate" but timewill tell

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure that I agree "that the Socialist Workers Party is
definitively breaking under the last decades of imperialist pressure is
a sign of the strength of our class enemy and not good news for our
side."

Short of direct repression--which isn't the case here--"imperialist
pressure" creates a right-ward drift by influencing the social or
political base of that movement or party.  I don't think the SWP has
such a base to which its leadership is responding.  (By analogy, it's
making Newtonian assumptions about particle physics.... the scale's not
right.)

I don't think that the SWP's shift necessarily reflects the strength of
our class enemy.  It is more plausible to see it as part of a group
psychology aimed at finding distinctive positions.  And the SWP's small
enough that the change could reflect a bit more attention by one or
another of the intelligence organizations infiltrating the group.

Solidarity!
Mark L.




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