Re: [Marxism] The SWP (USA) and its continuing significance

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter wrote:
> The SWP's numerical size isn't what make it important,
> but the political issues it discusses and the way that it
> focuses on the issues it chooses to address. To argue
> that the SWP is but "a bizarre cult-sect" misses the point.
> An e-mail list on the internet simply isn't a substitute
> for and shouldn't be confused with organizations which
> exist in the real world. They're not the same thing.
>
> E-mail lists are not organizations, they're places where
> a range of ideas, conceptions, platforms, stragegies,
> tactics and whatever can be discussed, debated, and
> on a good day, clarified. Emphasis on "can be" as there
> is no guarantee anything good will come out of it.

Walter, you are obsessed with the SWP. When I met with you in Los Angeles
15 years ago, that was the only thing you wanted to talk about. After
subbing to Marxmail, you sent me mail about the need you felt to examine
the entrails of its rotting corpse. Every so often, you send me mail asking
if so-and-so, an ex-SWP'er, is still on the list. This is not normal. Give
it a break.


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