I wrote a long autobiographical response to Alan's 2011 comments reflecting on my own SWP experiences (1969 - 1982/3) and my twenty-five years of post-SWP experience frequently working with Peter Camejo (1983 - 2008). It is posted on the Solidarity website:
"What happened to the SWP (U.S.)?: Recent memoirs stir discussion" by Dayne Goodwin, September 27, 2011 https://solidarity-us.org/what_happened_to_the_swp/ Louis published it on his blog first (i added one sentence for the Solidarity edition) - "A response to Alan Wald’s article on the SWP" by Dayne Goodwin, September 6, 2011 https://louisproyect.org/2011/09/06/a-response-to-alan-walds-article-on-the-swp/ Since i was speaking up in a decades-long discussion of "what happened to the SWP?" i felt responsible to provide sources for reference. Reviewing now i see that some of the links in my 2011 article no longer work so i am going through and trying to locate replacements for those links that don't work (or alternative sources). I will send those sources in a follow up message, soon. Dayne On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 7:00 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alan Wald's long and very interesting study of how Jack Barnes > transformed Leon Trotsky's flagship section into a cult. Written in > 2011, it is more of an autopsy than anything. The SWP has become so tiny > and so irrelevant that I doubt anybody will ever take the time to write > another such analysis. It is more a subject of black comedy today with > its pro-Donald Trump politics than anything that would require the > attention of Marxists. > > https://againstthecurrent.org/atc153/p3317/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8215): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8215 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82332924/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
