Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:26:36 -0800
From: iwp.ilo-AT-ix.netcom.com (CEP )
Subject: Re: Orthodox Trotskyism 2
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu


You(Lisa) wrote:
). It will be an open journal for Marxist regeneration. It 
>will oppose 'orthodoxy' and try stand by the Marxist method. I will 
now re-
>publish the letter that began a series of discussions leading to 
revolutionary 
>Marxists from different backgrounds agreeing to work together. No 
tendency 
>is behind it. (the LTT, LRCI and ITC mentioned below are small 
international 
>discussion groups).

    Carlos:

    You get all wrong.  The organizations you mentioned in your posting
    are. by their own definition of themselves "orthodox" whatever.     
    They opposse "orthodox" Trotskyism as a way to opposse those who
    call themselves that, for example the Usec.(some of them, anyway)
    But in their proposals they clearly believe they *are the           
    orthodox* (This applies to the LRCI, the ITC and the LTT).

    Now, if we forget who does call himself-herself, "orthodox Marxism"
    is whatt we need to go back to.  Since 1927 on a pile of Stalinist  
     and revisionist rubbish was piled up over the Marxist theory       
    which,
    in turn has had just defeated another pile of rubbish before (the
    Kautsky-Bernstein kind).

    In other words, in order to *advance* Marxism we need to start      
    where we left it in 1927.  Theories such as "socialism in one
    country"; "Stagist conception of the revolution" the practice
    of the "Popular Front" ,etc need to be dismissed as non-marxist,
    aboslete rubbish and revisionistreformist crap.  Then we will
    rebuild or "regenerate" Marxism and, more importantly *advance*
    it.

    When people start throwing around attacks against "orthodoxy"       
    without even know what it is, compounds the problem, they do
    not solve it.

    Comradely,
    Carlos

    


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