From: "Esbati, Ali" <17428-AT-HHSS.SE>
Subject: RE: M-I: List-Lobotomising Zarembka
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:54:20 +0100


I wonder quite often what *actually* is going thorugh Bob Maleckis head.
I mean, a lot of people do call other people dickheads. I don't really
care. But the political analysis of Malecki tend to be so outrageous and
self-contradictory that one starts to wonder what trotskyism actually
does to people.

The thing is, Malecki might be the most extreme person I've encountered,
but the trotskyists in Sweden all tend to make more or less the same
brilliant interventions in the political debates. The most interesting
feature of the trotskyist approach is the constant and boring dwelling
about CONCRETE ACTION, about WORKING WITH THE MASSES, and about creating
THE new political party, or THE new political platform. At the same
time, they tend to be the utterly most secterian people in the game. 

I'm not just talking rubbish here. I confront this in my everyday
political work. Trotskyist in Sweden must be credited for being
hyper-active, being everywhere, but they also tend to be a menance to
every attempt to work our a common political strategy and platform for
the left. 

Malecki does some really intersting things in one of his posts:

>Naturally there is a huge vacum that must be filled. And the ravings of our 
>Social democrats and the Stalinists sooner or later must come down to the 
>CONCRETE in political PROGRAM and ACTION! 

Well, here we go again.

>Now we either fill 
>this vacum with a revolutionary Bolshevik Leninist leadership or we will 
>either get a clone version rerun of a combination of neo Stalinist Menshevik 
>politics or we will get facism! There is no other way out of the present 
>crisis of leadership!
>
And REALLY! Please show me one example of trotskyist groups even being,
someway, on their way of creating a stable platform from which this
"Bolshevik Leninist leadership" can be conducted. There are a lot of
interesting - definitely not perfect but interesting - groups and
parties around the world doing serious political work in silence or in
the spotlight. But are they trotskyists? I don't thnik so.
>
>Finally Gary our Australian Maoists....Fuck off you whinny little dickhead! 

I can clearly see the working class and the whole left movement gather
now. I can feel it in the air. C'mon Malecki, please give us some more
of that "Bolshevik Leninist Leadership".

>ONLY the creation of 
>cadre organsations Internationally who in theroy and practice base them self 
>on the history of the Bolshevik Leninists Party, The first Four Congresses 
>of the Third International, Trotsky and the history of the Left Opposition 
>and the founding documents of the Fourth International can show the way
>forward!
>
Well, then, I guess we're doomed then. Seriousely: is this secterian or
is it not. Is this first and foremost CONCRETE POLITICAL ACTION? I have
definitely nothing against disucssiong history - I think it's totally
fundamental. But it's utterly irritating to hear these kind of stuff
>from someone that keeps talking about UNITING THE WORKING CLASS and
CONCRETE POLITICAL ACTION.



OK; I know this post may not have contributed to rising the level of the
debate. But it simply pisses me off to hear people make themselves the
"real" advoctes for "real" political action. It feels depressing to hear
this kind of stuff when you're devoting your life to doing exactly this:
making real politics in a fiercely hostile enviroment.

/Ali Esbati
Stockholm, Sweden















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