stephen <srdiamond@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On Jul 22, 9:07 am, pattyjoe <pattyjoetwee...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> i would love to hear more from people in response to the essay
>> written by Alan Benjamin for Socialist Organizer. i have long been
>> impressed with them theoretically, and wonder what critiques others
>> might offer, aside from the usual, snide, substance-free
>> denunciating.
>
> Most of the article lays out the position of, at one time, the entire
> International Committee. There is at least one interesting novelty,
> the position that the SWP experienced a tem****ary partial relapse into
> Trotskyism with its approach to the Vietnam War, while most in the IC
> at the time considered the SWP thoroughly pacifist in approach. What
> impresses the Lambertistes is the holding of democratic mass meeting
> to organize demonstrations, the meetings open to all tendencies
> opposed to the war. I think this position, perhaps a re*****sment,
> must relate to the organizational forms the Lambertistes have taken
> up, involving broad organizations open to all tendencies, directed
> against expressions of "globalising imperialism."
>
> Those of us disposed to straight-up Trotskyism don't have many
> choices. The positions compatible with resisting Pabloism and the USec
> reunification boil down to Healy, Lambert, Robertson. and the vngelis
> position, that the Fourth International failed to survive WWII. The
> main problem I have with the Lambertistes is their view of the
> developments in the workers states, including and most im****tantly
> their sup****t of Yeltsin and of the capitalist reunification of
> Germany. But then, on these matters I haven't read their position.
>
> srd
>
As I recall our positions in the early 70s, we were for a reunited
Germany, but opposed to a capitalist reunification such as actually took
place. I don't recall any su****t for Yeltsin, but then I radiated in
about 1980, before the consummation of the Stalinist betrayal.
--
Ross
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