Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:26:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: A defense worse than the deed


This is part of the Trotskyist religion. We'd sit around party
headquarters in the late 60s feeling full of ourselves because we were
growing rapidly. Then, inevitably, we'd start dissing the CP. And somebody
would inevitably make a crack like, "Whenever a CPer accuses you of not
making a revolution, just say we made one in 1917."

This is self-delusion on a grand scale. What does a mighty mass movement
that involved millions of workers and peasants have to do with a group of
1500 people in a nation of 280 million trying to break the 2000 member
ceiling? What, of course, happens to any Trotskyist group that reaches
this magic number is that it automatically begans to fall apart. 

Louis


On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:

> At 7:37 PM 7/24/96, Robert Malecki wrote:
> 
> >Naturally Doug does not mention the Russian revolution either!
> 
> Just for the record, Comrade Bob, I think the Russian Revolution was a good
> thing. It was not, however, a Trot revolution.
> 
> Doug
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