[Marxism] Re: A sectarian approach

[Ed George <edgeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The CMR, which is one of the founding elements of this new organisation 
of 20 people, is a simple satellite of the political tendency, which 
originates in Britain, led by Ted Grant and Alan Woods (more the latter, 
through age and illness, these days, than the former). These people 
consider themselves ‘the Marxists’ (note the definite article). Their 
position is that unless the Venezuelan revolution comes under their 
leadership it will fail. By what process of divine revelation the truth 
of Marxism was revealed to this particular segment of the British 
Trotskyist intelligentsia before it was revealed to the masses of 
Venezuela (or anywhere else for that matter) is not clear. Nevertheless, 
that is how it is: unless the Venezuelan workers and peasants see the 
true light of Marxist wisdom to which this current has somehow been 
granted a monopoly they are doomed.

It should not be irrelevant here to point out, though it should be no 
more than grist to the mill, that when it comes to actual political 
struggle, especially anti-imperialist struggle (rather than 
revolutionary phrasemongering, that is), this is a political current 
whose record is not exactly untarnished. This is, of course, a group, 
who, in 1982, in Britain, refused to demand the withdrawal of British 
forces from the Malvinas, and which has consistently failed to oppose 
itself to British occupation of the six counties of the north of Ireland.

Perhaps the only thing that surprises here is how anyone could possibly 
think that the fact of this British-centric group of shameless 
imperialist handraisers setting up shop as the indispensable political 
link in the leadership of the revolution in Venezuela could be anything 
*other* than sectarian.

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