On 3/13/16 11:33 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > However in the next breath you say you would have supported Norman > Thomas in “booting out” the small and troublesome Trotskyist faction > from the relatively insignificant Socialist Party where the stakes > were less than trivial by comparison.
You seem to either misunderstand what I write, or understanding it misrepresent it. I advocate a party like the Russian Social Democracy that had different tendencies (or the FSLN in Nicaragua et al). What I am opposed to, however, are groups like Cannon's seeking to split such parties through bad faith. The "French Turn" was designed to destroy the SP, not help build it. Furthermore, I think the Comintern type parties were a mistake to begin with, as Lenin appeared to be grappling with. If you spent more time actually studying this history than mouthing out about it out of ignorance, the discussion would be more illuminating. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
