RE: [Marxism] The Militant is getting smaller

[paul bunyan <cutemdown2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lause <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>However, it would make it5 easier to movement newcomers if the two
>parties would just set aside their pride and merge.


In 1977, after the SLP convention, the SWP did have a perspective of 
encouraging the SLP to come into the SWP enmasse. The SLP rejected this, 
unsurprisingly. The SLP in '77 said their position of a plague on both your 
houses, during the Vietnam war was wrong and they should have oppossed US 
intervention in Vietnam. At that time the SWP had a "regroupment" orientation 
(on their terms to be sure). It was the '77 convention that the 35 or so 
members of the Revolutionary Marxists Committee joined the SWP as a group. As I 
remember, the SWP was offering rather generous terms, organizationally to the 
SLP regarding NC and PC seats. The big stumbling block for the SLP was the 
question of democratic centralism. Despite my criticisms of the SWP, I can't 
fault them for this regroupment, limited as it was, orientation. Presently, it 
would appear that the SWP is closer to Workers World, or the split of group 
from WWP than to the SLP.



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