Re: [Marxism] Democrats call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Me: Another huge discussion topic, and we've already had lots on the list.
> My position is that forming an independent party or league or group, call it
> what you want, is a tactical not a principled question, and is related to
> the nature of the period. I don't think we're in such a period now.
>
> Marv Gandall

Yes, but your "position" has nothing to do with Marxism. It is the same
tired line we get from Joel Wendland, a CP leader on PEN-L. It is, as Mike
Davis put it in the scanned excerpt from "Prisoners of the American Dream",
the analysis of Dissent Magazine, the late Michael Harrington and Irving
Howe et al who convinced 60s radicals that their home was in the Democratic
Party. If there was an openness to those ideas here, we'd all join you on
Leo Casey's list where all the rest of the trade union piecards,
red-baiters and Cruise Missile leftists reside. The interesting thing about
you, Marv, is that despite your "broad left" reformist appetites, you have
the same stubborn sectarian mentality of every small group and individual
that is driven to convert radicals who disagree with them.


Louis Proyect
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