From: LeoCasey <LeoCasey-AT-aol.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:44:18 EST
Subject: M-TH: The "Identity" Politics That Dare Not Speak Its Name


In a message dated 98-03-22 04:56:54 EST,  Little Hughie writes:

<< In a viciously arrogant post, Casey uses my defence of Bob M as an excuse
 to simultaneously attack the  importance of leadership in socialist
 politics and pour scorn on the role of the working class in forming a
 revolution leadership on the one hand, and to idealize a non-existent
 spontaneous working class that will at a stroke release him and his
 fellow-sufferers from the pain of having to do anything themselves. >>

Me thinks that the Trotskyist vanguardist doth protest too much. Could it be
that this "frothing" representative of the "college, petty-bourgeois,
sceptical, opportunist, freeloading, non-revolutionary, non-working-class non-
Marxist left" struck a little close to home in his description of the type of
"identity" politics being employed by our paleolithic Trotskyists here?

Still waiting for the tides of Trotskyist history to sweep me away, I am
yours,

Leo


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