Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 05:54:27 -0400
Subject: Re: M-G: The Cannon article!


>Comrades,
>
>At last a piece from Bob Malecki which is serious and considers the
>problems of Trotskyism rather that proposing the Sparts as the answer to
>all our ills. I will make a more detailed reply later but first of all I
>must question why he does not make any reference to one of the main
>points of Dave's article - Was Cannon's American Theses a serious piece
>of Marxism or a confused (Pabloite!) perspective which greatly
>contributed to the disorientation of the post-war Fourth International?
>I hold the latter viewpoint. If this is correct then the Sparts'
>Cannonism is deeply flawed. What do you think?
>
>Gerry Downing

Dear Gerry,

Well, I think your above reasoning quite interesting. However, then why 
don't we pose the question as such. Trotsky until 1917 was a Menshevik on 
the party question, if this is correct then the Sparts or anybody elses for 
that matter Trotskyism is deeply flawed. What do you think?

The point is that Cannon must be seen in his entire life's work and not 
taken out of context to beat the anti-Spart drum!

By the way I see that you are being trashed by the fake Trotsky Faq. It is 
the same organisational method that these people used when creating the 
"Unity" list. Both of these lists by the way I was banned from --from their 
inception! Which means that my crime, unlike yours, is existing rather then 
any bureaucratic infraction dreamed up by these people to gag any kind of 
serious exchange.

However on principle I defend you against the bureaucratic attempts by the 
moderaters to control the "discussion" ..As usual these people have turned 
the fake Trotsky Faq into a tool for their revisionists ideas of a family of 
Trotskyism.

In order to do this they are taking the high road of fake objectivity..

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki
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