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On 9/13/12 9:24 PM, Omar Hassan wrote:
6. SA's hostility to many of the broad left alliances of the past years has nothing to do with a general approach to broad alliances, but everything to do with a concrete analysis of the previous period. Where others deluded themselves with visions of grandeur, we knuckled down and built what others derided as a 'sect'.
Such candor is most refreshing.
7. I would encourage those in Australia who wish to see what our 'party building practices' really are to come along to a meeting and have a chat to those who are involved in it.
I know someone in Australia--a good friend actually--who went to one of your conferences and was repelled by your hostility to Cuba. I strongly doubt that groups with such a dogmatic take on the most important socialist revolution since 1917 will get very far but I still think that sects are worth building. As I have said here to the point of being a crushing bore, I first learned about socialism from an SLP member who used to write letters attacking capitalism in our local newspaper up in the Catskills. He was named Nathan Pressman and he bought kosher dill pickles from my dad. I think that small socialist propaganda groups play a similar role.
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