Fwd: [Marxism] Forwarded from Stan Goff RE: Letter from "the Heretic, " a GI stationed in Iraq

[paul bunyan <cutemdown2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joaquín Bustelo <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> relayed message from Stan Goff: 
>....... this claim that WW and ISO are more advanced in this than anyone
>else is simply not the case.
>I know and respect a number of people in both these groups, but the role of
>each needs to be understood here.
>ISO, who excel ? given their largely young, academic base ? at putting on
>university-based public education events, have been very aggressive (and we
>have welcomed that) in publishing the writing of our membership and in
>putting our representatives in front of public audiences. That at the end
>of each of these appearances, there is always a pitch that posits the
>solution to everything being ?join the ISO? is something that is fairly easy
>to overlook.

Most of what Goff wrote, I can agree with. Organizations that organize around 
single issues are not revolutionary organizations. My problem with Goff is his 
apparant contention that revolutionary organizations shouldn't try to recruit 
or sell their press. To anyone who has read Goff's latest book "Full Spectrum 
Disorder" he has a prejudice against national organizations. He rightly 
criticizes the mainstream press, but then laments the existence (existence NOT 
content) of the Left press. He can't have it both ways. I say to him the same 
thing I would say to anyone who doesn't want to belong to a revolutionary 
organization of the vanguard variety-Fine, but don't trash those who do. Goff



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