Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 04:22:04 -0400 From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki) Subject: M-G: Fred Ferguson! New left cult slimeball.. Fred wrote to me on the Spartacist/ICL site I'm presently setting up at my homepage... >Bob: > >You are an intelligent fellow and I agree of much of what you put up >on the net, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what you can >possibly see in the Spartacist League. Granted Nordan's split is to >the right and sounds a bit like a falling out among thieves, but ". . >. These people are seriously attempting to build something for poor >and working class people and their future"? (!!??). > >Maybe the problem is that you are too far away. I can understand that >if your contact with the SL is through their paper and other >publications, that you would have a different idea of what their about >than if you were in frequent contact with them. > >As a former member, you can believe me when I tell you that they are a >sick cult and have been one since the day Robertson decided that the >revolution wouldn't happen in his life time and that he needed a >retirement plan. (And a house in the Berkeley Marina). > >They are long dead as a revolutionary party, nucleus of a party, >kernal of cadre or anythng more than an obedience cult. > >Fraternally, > >Fred Ferguson Hi Fred, Well, it appears that I have aroused the wrath of quite a few perople who in various different forms of personalist nature (rather then any serious kind of program and politics) want to tell me how the ICL and Robertson really are! Well, honestly I have to say that I have had no contact with the Spartacists for a number of years organisationally. Nor in fact have I recieved their press. Except I was contacted to help the PDC in the campaign to save Jamal's life. Since appearing on the net however for some reason someone feels that I should be informed and a couple of mysterious packages have arrived at my door. Both with material on the Norden/ICL fight and now some issues of WV,WR,Spartacist and a new journal on Black s and class struggle which I had never seen before, but was very impressed with. The reason I do not subscribe to WV is because I am really very poor and can't afford it. And the truth is and I have said this time and again. The ICL has a very warm place in my heart. But even they do not get a free ticket! The truth is that I have had no contact with the ICL and take the entire responsibility of this page upon myself.. However this is not the point. The point is that programatically despite being far from any of those horrible Sparts in real life that I find myself in agreement with what they say. It has nothing to do with Robertson's pension or which Spart farted where. It is program and intervention in living class struggle that is decisive. Our American leftists appear to see this as some fucking sort of life style and trashing each other personally as being sick cults, demented people and all the rest of this kind of personalistic garbage. This is because most of the intellectual petty bougeois components of the left came out of the new left belly gazing me generation. Well I didn,t I came from the slums and docks of Hoboken. I can not play your silly came because I have been to busy trying to stay alive! Not to mention the FBI,CIA and others trying to put me away for my anti-war activities. You people appear to think that this is a party where everybody goes and drinks wine, drugs whatever, look at pictures of Che or Lenin on the wall and then try to trash and personalize politics according to the individuals and their life styles rather then any kind of reality that we poor and working class people face. You really don't give a shit that this stuff, this horror, this oppression is something we experience everyday of our lifes. For you it is a personalized, me generation fucking party.. This historically by the way is how the new left has always worked! I remember well even when not being a Communist militant. I was working in a tank plant in Cleveland in shifts, and attempting to sabotage and stop the American war effort in all kinds of spectacular actions. I was doing this not because I wanted to be part of the petty bougeois new left cultism that existed. But because it was my people who stood on the production line in the tank plant who were being sent of to die so that the fatcats could turn a buck. That my friend is a big difference.. And in the neighborhood I lived in it was hillbilly kids who parents moved from the coal fields in Kentucky to the Ford and general motors plants in Cleveland that were coming back in boxes.. Not to mention all the Vietnamese poor and working class people being turned to dust! In prison it was not new left belly gazers and party goers but black militants from the ghettoes, trade union people like Hoffa who was set up by the Kennedy boys in order to smash the Teamsters union (Hoffa sold out the union to Nixon by the way for his freedom), not to mention Russian spies whose parents and entire family were wiped out in Dresden and really dedicated people like Phil Berrigan who put their lives on the line..Not new left bellygazers and party goers who use this personalized trashing button.. How dare you insult people with your new leftist belly gazing cultism. Jamal is going to die and you continue to play the little new left personality cult game only this time directed at the Sparts. Go fuck yourself you little piece of shit! Believe me if and when I meet a Spart or anyone else I will quickly know and judge who is serious and who is a faker based on my own historical experience. I don't need professional new left belly gazers like yourself to let me in on the real "action" of the Sparts. You personalising garbage and raking and entire organisation with groups in many countries over the "cult" coals is a disgusting repris of just the American left who appear to be more cynical and disgusting as ever. Go tell your slanders on Apsts. Because your letter and this reply are going to Alt. socialim Trotsky so that it can be part of the rest of thr Hate Spartacist, Hate Trotsktism, Hate the ICL League. You really fucking deserve each other! Unprincipled, unpolitical new left bellygazers. On principle letters like your despicable letter above should be published for all the world to see. Bob Malecki ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out My HomePage where you can, Read or download the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! Or Get The Latest Issue of, COCKROACH, a zine for poor and working-class people http://www.algonet.se/~malecki Back issues of Cockroach and my book at http://www.kmf.org/malecki/ -------------------------------------------------------- --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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