Re: the next wedge issue

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:
> I take issue with his agreement with Lou's statement
> that a Revolutionary party would have to expel Melvin.

What I said is that if Melvin made remarks at a branch meeting like he made
here, he'd be brought up on charges. I know for a fact that lots of older
SWP'ers, especially factory workers, felt threatened by woman's and gay
liberation but they had the common sense to keep their prejudiced remarks
to themselves. Sadly, it was only in the late 1970s after the SWP made its
infamous "turn" that members' private thinking began to become an issue.
This is what helped to destroy the CP in fact. In the late 1940s, as the
witch-hunt took shape, they made a big point of hounding out members who
might have had "weak" understandings of the woman or Negro question despite
remaining silent on those questions in party meetings, etc.


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