Re: [Marxism] Camejo to speak at CCNY

[Octob1917@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/22/2004 8:50:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lnp3@xxxxxxxxx
writes:
I have known Peter Camejo since 1971 and was pretty close to him
personally and politically in the 1980s after he was expelled from the
SWP. Left-liberal does not describe him politically then or now. For
those who can detect anything "left-liberal" in this document, please
share it with the rest of us:

Would you care to share with me, and everyone else, the reason or reasons as
to why he was expelled from the SWP?

Also, let me expand upon my labeling of him as a left-liberal. When any
former avowed adherent of revolutionary politics enters into constitutional
political elections, and doesn't use their platform to denounce said elections, 
or to
advance a political program calling for the overthrow of the existing
capitalist state and a change in the ownership of the means of production, they 
ipso
facto legitimise the prevailing economic and social structure of that state.

To my mind it is simple: you either support revolution or you support reform.
A relevant analogy would be the present situation in the six counties of
Ireland. There you have former revolutionaries now sitting down with the 
colonial
government they'd at one time been committed to resisting to discuss the
continued peaceful occupation of their country.

Like I said before, hopefully his lack of militancy now is merely a guise of
some sort or other. If not, I can only conclude that his politics have
degenerated into a position of reformism.

Joe
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