File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-04-08.224, message 91


Subject: Re: M-I: Cockroach Extra! (British Elections and Workers Struggle.)
From: jschulman-AT-juno.com (Jason A Schulman)
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 14:52:18 EDT


I don't know why I'm bothering to write this...

On Tue, 08 Apr 1997 16:42:39 +0200 Robert Malecki  writes:
>
>Workers Struggle-Fake Trotskyists and Pabloite revisionists!
>
Enough with "Pabloism" already. I can already hear the old slurs
("Liquidationist," "believer in self-reform of the Stalinist
bureaucracy," etc.), most of which are long since outdated.

Yes, Michel Pablo's thesis -- that we were in for "hundreds and hundreds
of years of deformed workers' states", etc. -- was wrong.  The point is,
though, THAT HE RETRACTED IT, as did the USec's new leadership when the
International reunited. That's what the opponents of "Pabloism" don't
say.

(And here is where I disagree with Lou Proyect -- I don't think Pablo's
idea of the Trotskyists entering the Third International parties would've
ever worked.  I don't think they would've gotten anywhere in those CPs
that remained bureaucratically centralized.  Perhaps they should've
entered the EuroCommunist parties, I don't know.)

-- Jason
______
"For Marx, the theoretical axis of CAPITAL -- the core around which all
else develops -- is the question of plan: the despotic plan of capital
against the cooperative plan of freely associated labor." Raya
Dunayevskaya , *Marxism And Freedom* (1958),  p.92.




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