Re: [Marxism] Respect, a united front?!?!

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis wrote:
>Shane Mage wrote:
>>  This was written in 1931 when the parties of the Comintern, like the
>>  parties of the Second International in 1912, could still be thought of
>>  as revolutionary in some sense.  By 1933, as Trotsky recognized, that
>>  no longer was the case.  Then on 12 February 1934, responding to the
>>  fascist riots of 6 February (after the Stavisky "suicide"), the PCF and
>>  the SFIO called separate marches.  But the French proletariat had
>>  a different idea--the marchers came together, embraced, and surged
>>  forward with common banners, thus rejecting the sectarianism of both
>>  parties.  This decisive event was the impetus to Trotsky's "French Turn,"
>>  and it gave a new and different meaning to the "United Front" concept,
>>  which now became the demand for united action among all the
>>  workingclass parties (soon in counterposition to the reformist
>  > "Popular Front" electoral bloc with capitalist parties like the Radicals).
>
>
>French turn? Another bad idea from Leon Trotsky, I am afraid...

So Oehler was right?

>This was all about entryism in the SP, which in the US built up the Trotskyist
>party and left the SP in ruins. If we had a mass SP today, the left
>would be much stronger, even with all its flaws.

The "Turn" of 1934 and the split in 1938 were very different things in
very different circumstances.  And weren't Tyler and Thomas at least
as responsible as Schachtman and Cannon?

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos


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