Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:31:32 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Sparts clarify things


The latest ish of Workers Vanguard has two related articles inspired by
their recent purge of former WV editor Jan Norden and his comrade/companion
Marjorie Stamberg - one, an extended definition of "Trotskyism," and the
other a discourse on the Pabloite heresy. The Trotskyism article contains a
revealing gem of a sentence. Denouncing Norden for his cultivation of ties
with the Luta Metallurgica group in Brazil - a symptom of his pathology,
"Pabloism of the second mobilization" - WV said that the task of
transforming LM into "a Leninist propaganda group would not be easy. They
had no party press and no conception of polemical work against other groups
on the left."

There you have it: the essence of Leninism, Spart-style, is polemical work
against other groups on the left."

Doug

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