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

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis wrote:
>Shane Mage wrote:
>>  As "everyone" (thou and I?) knows.  So then, why was Trotsky wrong in 1934?
>
>The real question is whether the construction of Trotskyist parties,
>which Trotsky himself referred to as Bolshevist-Leninist, made any
>sense. If it does, then the French turn made sense. However, I reject
>not only the Trotskyist party-building model, but all such attempts at
>constructing a vanguard on the basis of an idealized "program",
>democratic centralism, etc., etc.

In this I have not the least disagreement with thee--as concerns the
past half-century or more (as Robertson could testify).  But the 1930's
were an entirely different epoch, an epoch of mass revolutionary
upsurge in Western Europe.  When Nin and Andrade rejected the French
Turn and liquidated the Spanish Left Opposition into the POUM the result
was not exactly splendid. An independent revolutionary current within
Caballero's PSOE might, just might, have offered better chances.

Shane Mage

  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
  living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62

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