Re: the next wedge issue

[Michael Hoover <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> lnp3@xxxxxxxxx 11/21/03 11:48AM >>>
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.
Louis Proyect
<<<>>>

recp 'comrades' used to kick shit out of gay rcp-er friend of mine for
'bourgeois decadence' during 'maoist self-criticism'
sessions...he remained member for number of years as this was
happening...   michael hoover