Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 00:49:07 -0400
From: LeoCasey-AT-aol.com
Subject: Re: The Grand Old Party (Remnant) {was "marxism", "dialectics" and "science"}


In a message dated 95-06-24 22:09:43 EDT, Erwin Marquit wrote:

>The (pro-reformer) leadership that left (sic) the party ended up >leaving
because the membership rebelled against their tactics of >expelling the
opposition. 

Certain rhetorical strategies are so ingrained into the history of Stalinism
that they just come naturally. If the Red Army tanks invading Budapest,
Berlin and Prague can be portrayed as popular uprisings of German, Hungarian
and  Czechosolvakian workers against counter-revolutionaries, and if martial
law and the banning of independent trade unions can be presented as the will
of Polish workers, then the use of the courts and principles of private
property (did anyone say 'bourgeois legality'?) to attempt a putsch against
the democratically elected leadership can easily become the revolt of the
membership.

 


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