Re: [Marxism] Maoism and Trotskyism, what's the difference?

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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Remember that guy Danny Fetonte that was removed from the DSA national 
committee because he was an official of the cop union? Well, that wasn't 
his only flaw. From the same chapter in John Levin's book on PL and the 
WSA that I posted earlier:


She was an extraordinary organizer. Her experience in the Left was an 
excellent training ground, and she had a gift for the work. In 2000, 
Lynn, suffering from severe PTSD caused by years of abuse by her boss, 
Danny Fetonte, left CWA with full disability and a large settlement. He 
was director of TSEU and often took her aside and yelled and screamed at 
her, finding fault with even the successful things she did. He was 
furious if she acted on things that weren't his idea. Even when the 
campaign was going well, he berated her over the numbers of members 
signed by her organizers. He and Lynn's male counterpart in the union 
ganged up against her and thwarted her ideas. The legislative work done 
by her and one of her organizers had to be kept secret because Danny 
disagreed with it. Lynn fought every day for her position as a woman in 
a male-dominated workplace, just as she had fought to be heard by the 
male chauvinists in the movement. After she left CWA she continued to 
have flashbacks and relive her fights with Danny. She would become 
agitated and shaky. He had destroyed a strong woman's self-confidence. 
Her mental and physical health continued to decline, and she died in 
November of 2015 in Kansas City, where we lived.

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[Marxism] Maoism and Trotskyism, what's the difference?

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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(Except for supporting Mao Zedong rather than Jack Barnes, life in 
Progressive Labor in the 1960s sounds pretty much like life in the SWP. 
From John Levin and Earl Silbar’s “You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, 
PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance".)


My sister loved to sell Challenge and was actually good at it. She 
should have been the Minister of Challenge Sales for the Southwest. She, 
I, and her best friend, Dick Johnson, used to drive down to San Antonio 
to sell Challenge to people on the streets around the Alamo. We 
especially targeted and tried to sell the paper to personnel from the 
military bases around town. PL thought that the military should be 
organized. No one was more antiwar than the people who had served in 
Vietnam. They clearly understood anti-imperialism. I can't remember 
specific conversations, but many of them were against the war. Dick and 
I didn't have the skills that Lynn had in selling Challenge. Sometimes 
we'd head off to our assigned corners and dump most of the copies in 
trash can and go have coffee until time to meet up with Lynn. Once she 
found boxes of unsold Challenges under my bed and was disappointed that 
Dick and I weren't really selling them on campus. Until her death, she 
chided me for it on the one hand and apologized on the other for forcing 
Dick and me to try to sell them.


My sister moved to Houston and worked with PL under the leadership of 
Stevie Eisenberg. The two of them sat me down for a meeting when I was 
visiting and asked me to donate some of the insurance money from my 
husband's death on active duty in Vietnam to PL. I was using the money 
to buy property for our parents in the Texas Hill Country, but they wore 
down my objections and I gave them $400. I wrote an article for 
Challenge about the coordinated efforts of workers from all over the 
state to help restore services in Corpus Christi after Hurricane Celia. 
It was edited beyond recognition to reflect what they called 
"revolutionary enthusiasm." It was a pretty straightforward article 
about the numbers of IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical 
Workers), CWA (Communication Workers of America), and Plumbers union 
workers who came from other parts of Texas and volunteered time to help 
restore services in the aftermath. I said it was a show of working-class 
solidarity with the people of the city. The edited version inflated the 
numbers for no explainable reason.


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