Re: [Marxism] NASCO shipyard and communists.

[chegitz guevara <absynthe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I learned that little phrase while I was in The Spark, a Trotskyist group.

Otherwise, I agree with everything you wrote. There is absolutely no
good reason for the continued separation of communists. Especially
now, with capitalism on its knees.

Marxism has been laying the ground work for over a decade. The time
for talking about building a real united front is past. It's time to
do it.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM,  <Waistline2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a message dated 4/2/2009 1:44:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> absynthe@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Sky Keyes <skeyesvogt@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>> that even had a chant that inlcuded a line about every Trot  needing an
>> icepick or something.
>
> A chicken in every pot, an  icepick in every Trot.
>
> Reply
>
>
> This is ugly.
>
> Further, the material and political basis for the divergence between
> political Trotskyism and its orientation, against and opposed to all shades 
>  of the
> Stalin/Lenin polarity has been eroded by history. The polarities that  evolved
> in response to and relationship to Soviet Power, exhausted themselves  with
> the overthrow of Soviet Power.  Continuing polarity is based in  ideology
> exclusively and no clear political or material reality.
>
> Unless one can outline something material - not ideological, that today
> sustains this old polarity. The issue can never be reduced to "what I think 
> and
> believe."
>
> WL.

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