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M-TH: Strictly Ballroom Marxism

r.i.p
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 01:32:38 -0700


>Surely LM cannot be a serious magazine?

If it wasn't serious then Independent Television News wouldn't be suing the 
pants off em and The Guardian wouldn't be publishing grossly innaccurate, 
spiteful, hachet jobs on it.
(& WRP??? where do they fit in with the RCP and LM?)

>I thought that the expose in the
>Guardian a few months back (I can't remember the exact weekend, but it was
>in the Weekend supplement) was very good, pointing out that effectively a
>remaining section of the WRP cult (Gerry Healey's old mob, till he died I
>think) had decided to reconstitute themselves as their paper, like Mormons
>with a family business.

>I'll admit that I haven't seen a copy recently, but even back in 96 
> >>(wasit
>still Living Marxism then?) it was a bit weird, and definitely >notstrictly
>ballroom as far as Marxian analysis was concerned.

But what is Ballroom Marxism?

(BTW Does the WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY do the tango, and if so with whom?)

Russell


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