Re: Re: Re: And now the attacks on Kabul

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:05 AM 09/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> Afghanistan is as adept at splitism as Trotskyists it
> would seem.

splittism is all over the map. Lenin and the Bolshies (strictly speaking,
the RSDLP) went through all sorts of splits and recombinations before 1917
(and after Lenin died, then in a more bloody way). Alan Greenspan's old
movement, the Ayn Randites, had their splits. Doug used to be in a group
called the Party of the Right, which had its splits (versus the Tories,
etc.) The fundamentalist Protestants split among a large number of
denominations. Academics get into silly spats that can become long-term
battles. Etc.

BTW, speaking of splittism, I saw the left-turned-ultra-right Laroucheites
peddling their crap out front at our (middle class-oriented) grocery store
on Saturday.

BTW2, how are you doing, Doug, and other New Yorkers? and suburban DCers?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine