Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:21:30 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: M-G: Insect spray Special (Lenin and the Vanguard Party) 


Bob the Trotskyite and malingant lackey of imperialism
strangely wrote:

>New Edition of Spartacist Pamphlet
>
>The Stuggle for Revolutionary Leadership
>Lenin and the Vanguard Party
>
>We are pleased to announce the publication of a slightly edited and expanded 
>edition of Lenin and the Vanguard Party. The core of the pamphlet, 
>originally published in 1978, is a series of articles by Spartacist League 
>Central Committee member Joseph Seymour tracing Lenin's struggle too build a 
>proletarian vanguard party, from the beginning of organized Marxism in 
>tsarist Russia in the 1890s to World War 1. 

Precisely that struggle that Trotsky staunchly opposed.
How can his adherents today genuinely believe that *their*
type of such "tracing" will do any good?

As for the very clear and very sharp contradictions between 
Trotskyism on the one hand and Marxism and Leninism on the
other, many have already written much to this list. I shall
not repeat these things just now.

Rolf M.





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