Re: [Marxism] WSWS madness

[David Thorstad <binesi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I read it, but didn't weep. Just a twinge of sadness at how fucked up 
much of the Trotskyist movement in the United States became in the 
1970s. Nothing new here, really, that hadn't already appeared in the 
Healyites' biggest pamphlet ever published (at 17 X 11 inches), /How the 
GPU Murdered Trotsky: Security and the Fourth International/ (1976). I 
did, however, find it interesting that in 1978, the Workers League was 
discussing a "real turn toward the working class." This was precisely 
the time the SWP was preparing its "turn to industry," supported at the 
time by many hand-raisers (a few of whom are on this list), but, in my 
view, merely a way station on the road to the current cultish 
irrelevance of the Barnes clique. I presume that would confirm the 
Healyite theory that Barnes et al., the Carleton College cabal, were in 
fact CIA/FBI agents.
    How bizarro can you get?
David
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Louis Proyect wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed">Although I have very little curiosity 
> about the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), which apparently has just 
> been launched as a new formation (I was under the impression that the 
> group already existed), other than David Walsh's movie reviews and the 
> occasional report on an underreported country, I couldn't resist 
> having a peek at their multi-part history of their origins--especially 
> since they would eventually have to deal with their history of 
> labeling people like founder Tim Wolforth and SWP leader Joe Hansen as 
> secret moles of the CIA. Read it and weep:
>
> http://wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/hist-o07.shtml
>
>
> </div>
>


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