Quick quiz: 1. Which of these left-wing political tendencies in all of their various incarnations has successfully led the working class to power in an advanced capitalist country in the past 150 years?
a) Maoists b) Trotskyists c) Social democrats d) Anarcho-syndicalists e) pro-Soviet CP’s 2. What is the English translation of Saepe mendosus, nunquam dubius? > On Feb 6, 2016, at 5:56 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Food fight! Food fight! Between opponents so brilliantly matched that > Dante couldn't have done better if he had written the Sectarian Inferno." > > I am, at a minimum, 'uncomfortable' with the Trotskyist tradition: it almost > invariably leads to a left opportunism. (Whee - I can wield the jargon too.) > But I find use of the word "Trot" simply despicable. It is sure-fire > evidence of intellectual vacuity. "Food fight" nicely pins down the results > of both such diction and angry responses to it. > > Carrol > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
