Re: [Marxism] oops! I meant to send that off list. My bad!

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter Lippmann wrote:
> The SWP's opposition to the African National Congress is one of those 
> legacies which world Trotskyism clings to
> with relentless intensity. Today other Trotskyist and neo-Trotskyist
> tendencies carry that unfortunate banner.

At the very time when Walter Lippmann was expelled from the SWP, the 
group was discovering that the ANC was beyond reproach. Openness to 
non-Trotskyist forces globally went hand-in-hand with super-sectarianism 
in the USA. While the SWP was hoisting Mandela on its 
shoulders--metaphorically speaking--it was discovering that the social 
movements in the USA were all "petty bourgeois". So support for the ANC 
and Cuba is not a prophylactic against sectarianism. You are better off 
with penicillin or a condom.

Of course, the ANC of the early 1980s bears no resemblance to the ANC of 
today. History moves forward relentlessly as the examples of the PLO and 
the Algerian FLN would demonstrate. I myself have no interest in living 
in the past since the clothing styles tend to be so ludicrous. How would 
anybody in their right minds wear bell bottom jeans?



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