Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: re-vanguards? 


Louis: Have no fear, Michael. There is about as much chance of a group
like the American SWP taking state power as there is for Jesus Christ to
be resurrected.

On 3 Jul 1996, Michael Luftmensch wrote:

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> While there is more than one approach to every issue, I would argue
>  that authoritarianism is directly related to sectarianism.
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> Much of what you have written about your own experiences inside 
> the US-SWP would seem to support this. 
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> A few weeks ago, I quoted Rosa Luxemburg on Lenin and Trotsky's 
> formula. Inter alia, her remarks: 
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> "The tacit assumption with the Lenin-Trotsky theory of the 
> dictatorship is this: that the socialist transformation  is 
> something for which a ready-made formula lies completed 
> in the pocket of the revolutionary party, which needs only to 
> be carried out energetically in practice."  
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> I think the above is germane to the issues at hand. This is 
> how "a group of several hundred in a nation of over a
>  quarter-billion citizens  [can] claim that it will lead 
> this nation [i.e, the USA]  to socialism." 
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