Re: [Marxism] Challenge to Lenin & Trotsky experts

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

james daly schrieb:

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> This is not the first time I have found that getting around the list's 
> Stalin/Trotsky debate prohibition made clarity difficult.  I was influenced 
> by Michael Farrell's People's Democracy, which had a more or less Trotskyist 
> criticism of the "Officials", but I am not a Trotskyist.  You don't need to 
> be, to be critical of the Officials.

I was politically active in Ireland in the period 1969-1971 and I must 
say I never found the "Marxism" of the Stickies particularly convincing 
although their Stalinism was very much the real thing! I missed your 
reference to them because I never considered them to be Marxist.

As for the BICO (previously ICO), they were also not very convincing 
although very learned - their massive swing from being ultra-republican 
circa 1970 to advising the Loyalists during the Ulster "Workers' 
Council" strike in 1974 finished them off as something even vaguely 
Marxist as far as I was concerned - although I understand Clifford and 
what's left of the BICO has now veered away from Loyalism too.

Einde

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