RE: [Marxism] 1983 open letter from SA to the SWP

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

The preliminary and more important question is why the three parts of the 
opposition couldn't stay together. Had we done so, a principled way to approach 
Solidarity may have been developed. And had that been done the combined forces 
of what split into SA/BIDOM/Socialist Unity may have been big and clear enough 
to turn Solidarity away from its centrist character.

Maybe not. But in any case US Trotskyism would have a more coherent expression 
-- a task still deserving to be pursued.

My short answer to my above question is that having suffered through a 
caricature of discipline under Barnes we had forgotten how to impose a sensible 
Leninist discipline on ourselves, so each of the three wings thought their 
tactical desires were more important than unity.

-- "Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am at a loss, though, to understand why all of the Socialist Action
people did not participate in the formation of Solidarity, which I
viewed and view as the best option available on the Left.

Best,
Mark L.




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