[Marxism] Re: Walter L's inquiry re Lyn Marcus

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Walter wrote:

>>If Lyn Marcus (LaRouche) was a member of the Wohlforth wing of world
Trotskyism, it couldn't have been for very long. I'm guessing LaRouche
made his own exit from the SWP in his own way and time, creating his own
paper and programmatic trail. There's an iron law in the world of such
organizations: only one guru per sect.

On the Edge, jointly authored by Tim Wohlforth and Dennis Tourish, has a
chapter on LaRouche.

They say LaRouche and his companion Carol Larrabee "in the summer of
1965 launched a political struggle inside the SWP against the
leadership". LaRouche left the SWP that year and "joined a small
Trotskyist group associated with Gerry Healy, then called the American
Committee for the Fourth International. This brought him into contact
with Healy when he came to Canada to meet with his American supporters.
Healy was not impressed. Gurus generally find other gurus intolerable.

"LaRouche stayed with the ACFI for only six months and then moved on to
another minute Trotskyist group, the Spartacist League. Unable to win
this group over to LaRouchism, LaRouche and Larrabee left after a few
months. He send out a letter pompously declaring that all factions and
sections of the Trotskyist Fourth International were dead and that he
and Larrabee were going to build the Fifth International."

Ed Lewis


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