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

["Lueko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

# Subject: Re: [Marxism] The SWP (USA) and its continuing
significance
# From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
# Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 09:42:52 -0400

  where Louis responds to Walter Lippmann:

> >Marxmail also includes polemics against people on the
> >left who've really and truly left the left, such as writer
> >Christopher Hitchens and Marc Cooper, so occasional
> >discussions of the devolution of the Socialist Workers
> >Party may not seem quite so out of line, in my view.
>
> Except that I have received complaints from time to time about the
> obsessional posting about some article from the Militant. Nobody ever
> complains about a zinger aimed at Hitchens and Cooper.

   which I have never heard about until I saw your polemics about
them on this mailing list. And still these people signify nothing to
me except that they are the object of your wrath, dear Louis. And
that is why I mostly do not read such contributions and other where
some unknown name in the subject line is supposed to catch the
readers interest.

    I guess this applies to most other participants in this list
outside the USA.

    The SWP however (the one in the USA) is known by revolutionists
the world over. And this not only because of its role in the
Vietnam-War-movement, but because of its history going back to the US
CP, its collaboration with the Russian Bolshevik L. Trotsky, and its
role in the Fourth International movement. Many do hate it, but they
reckon with it. Maybe the SWP is currently on a course of
selfdestruction, but I can't know that. History will tell.

    I complained only then people continuuously claim that the SWP is
insignificant, but again and again write about it.

    As to the article on the trade union at "Point Blank", I
recommend comrades to make a search for "Point Blank" on the papers
website, to see the continued reporting over the past years on that
union fight. Wasn't also some candidate fired from Point Blank for
political reasons? I remember something like that, but I did not find
any reference for it.

Yours,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt/Main
/ Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx






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