I was recently startled to see a sophomoric sectarian redbaiting rant on FB
against Carl Davidson railing against him for being being a stooge of
imperialism because of his alleged adoption of that "imperialist ideology",
pragmatism. I was even more startled when I learned that this rant came not from
a Healyite sectarian but from an ostensible member of the CPUSA. Davidson
informs us they are from a "mini-faction" of the CP. Nonetheless they seem like
provacateurs headed down the road of NCLC. Below is a link to the FB page
referenced above together with a link to a faux CP page they have put up which
just reeks of paper overed Glen Beck.
The FBI maintains a website called The Vault for documents that have been released via Freedom of Information Act inquiries, court orders, and the like. ...
Interesting. Thanks, Arthur. Though I suspect the documents I've downloaded on Henry A. Wallace may have given my computer the clap. :-) ML [Non-text portions...
Possible, I suppose. Were the Marceyites a distinctive group within the SWP that early? Certainly, such a sane, useful stance--as supporting Wallace...
I would argue they were not a distinctive group until 1956. Copeland, if you read his work on China, attack Pablo and the Euro-FIers on this basis, something...
Yeah, but weren't they basically the Buffalo branch of the SWP? My take on this is in part based on a brief personal conversation I had with Copeland at the...
Copeland also wrote an excellent pamphlet in the early 80s, "US Imperialism, Then and Now" in which he deconstructed US colonialism re the Phillipines, Hawaii,...
Sam Marcy took the entire Buffalo branch and a small number of people in other branches who used to be in Buffalo. Well into the 1960s the "cult of the...
The branches WWP took with them besides Buffalo were Eire, PA (GE workers), Youngstown (Steel, including the Weinstein guy who ran with Sadlowski in 1977 USW...
Isn't the GE plant in Erie the locomotive plant complex, which is organized by UE? It is probably the largest UE plant today. Also, Loraine is due weat of...
My recollection is that Lorraine was the large town where you could go to drink lots of beer in peace when the cuddliness of Oberlin became too depressing....
Not to dispute Mark's main point which I would agree with, but just for the record, the WWP did support Cynthia McKinney's candidacy in the 2008 presidential...
I was recently startled to see a sophomoric sectarian redbaiting rant on FB against Carl Davidson railing against him for being being a stooge of imperialism...
It's FB. I'd trust nothing there that you don't know from elsewhere. As for Carl Davidson, if that smug, discussion-ducking dumb shit Democratic asshole that...
Yeah, I'm wondering if gravity is an imperialist ideology, I asked her, I mean Newton was known to be favorably disposed to the British Empire and its...
There has been considerable information shared and discussed on the Leftist Trainspotters yahoo group about the CPs move away from long held stances in the...
... I found Leftist Trainspotters to be a combination of trivial pursuit and gossip. It is also particularly frustrating when, despite itself, threads there...
Louis Proyect
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Apr 15, 2011 6:11 pm
Nothing works for everyone. But, admittedly, there is a lot of dross and trivia mixed in with useful material. And Louis is absolutely correct about the format...
There are any number of these state "left" and "progressive" lists on yahoo. They usually have a big mix of people, the main virtue being that people know...
I've also had my membership request for it pending since February. Unless it was approved this morning, no one has replied to my requests to the list owner to...
Fair enough. Point taken on the WWP. Of course, the political achievement of putting together a common campaign is, in part, the process of holding a...
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