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"S. Artesian" wrote:
> ISO isn't going to go along with Angelus' view. of the
> small Marxist group.
It doesn't matter, under present conditions. The question is not what an
organization thinks it is doing but what, looking back on it, what it is
doing.
("The anatomy of man is a key to the anatomy of the ape.")
For example. All the criticisms everyone has made of the CPUSA from 1936
on are quite accurate. It was sinking deeper and deeper into
opportunism.
But looking back on the period 1945-1960 from the pwerspective of the
explosions of the 1960s, it is clear that CP work during the preceding
decades were absolutely essential, far more important than the work of
many who had "better theory." The CP's intentions were irrelevant; that
they (and their former members, fronts, etc) kept something alive that
shows in almost all the key events from Montgomery through the March on
Washington and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement is what counts.
The first task of theory is to know the scope and limits of theory in a
given context.
Carrol
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