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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
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