Re: [Marxism] Galloway faction splits from Respect:

[glparramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comrades should understand that Louis Proyect makes judgements based 
near absolute ignorance, a sort of reverse international guruism in 
which all efforts towards left organisational advance -- and setbacks -- 
are jammed into his one-size-its-all rejection of party building.

Norm.

Louis Proyect wrote:

>Alan Bradley wrote:
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>
>>On the Respect thing: removing the SWP cadres from
>>Respect is going to seriously damage the organisation.
>>On the other hand, I doubt the SWP is going to be able
>>to salvage anything on their side either. So this is
>>(probably) a complete disaster all round.
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>>
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>Comrades should understand that Alan's group (or the group he cheers 
>for--I can't remember honestly) had the same kind of controversies in 
>Australia. It basically captured itself in a new party called Socialist 
>Alliance that was supposed to bring together socialists and independents 
>in a regroupment effort. Just as the SWP expected their newspaper to be 
>the organ of Respect, so did the DSP expect Greenleft Weekly to be the 
>voice of the Socialist Alliance. These brilliant Leninists remind me of 
>managers I have run into since 1968 in the business world. They have an 
>instinctive fear of initiatives from below. Let me amend that. There is 
>nothing instinctive about it. It comes from reading James P. Cannon or 
>Tony Cliff's addled study of Lenin.
>
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