Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 14:00 BST-1
From: jplant-AT-cix.compulink.co.uk (Jj Plant)
Subject: Re: Resolutions from the Rev. Platform of the SLP


In-Reply-To: <199608230622.IAA25655-AT-ratatosk.algonet.se>
>The problem with the above is that trying to build electoral 
blocks tends to 
liquidate the program of revolution. That is why i say that it 
is better to 
put forth ones own candidates where possible. Give critical 
support to 
others where possible and making it explicitly clear why this 
support is 
critical.

>All of this building of electoral blocks appears to be agreeing 
to disagree 
along the lowest common denominator and always helps those who 
are not 
prepared to go all the way and building illusions about 
reformist and 
centrist traitors..

You seem to be trying to shift the discussion away from concrete 
reality onto a plane of abstract principles. The RP/SLP, by 
contrast, is attempting to deal with the specific situation of 
conflicting revolutionary initiatives in Britain at the present 
time. If you really want to start from a position where you see 
Militant Labour, the Socialist Alliances and the CPGB as 
'reformist and centrist traitors' then either you have a 
radically different view of them from mine, or you are set on a 
very lonely course of revolutionary purity that can never get 
you beyond another 'telephone booth international'. Don't you 
think the world has had enough of that stuff ? Isn't it time to 
realise that the crisis of proletarian leadership is not going 
to be solved by heaping abuse on those who are closest to us 
politically ?

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