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On 7/4/15 11:49 AM, James Creegan wrote:
Yes, I caught on to the Louis Proyect theory of leadership a long time ago: If people are confused and ambivalent, it is the task of leaders to... "reflect" their confusion and ambivalence.
You don't seem to get my point. Syriza was neo-Keynesian economically. When Tsipras came to the USA, he visited the Jerome Levy Institute at Bard College not the Spartacist League. Pointing out its failure to adopt Bolshevik policies is asinine. Our problem as Marxists is to construct an alternative leadership, not to issue sterile critiques of people who never pretended to be anything except leftist opponents of austerity. We can offer our solidarity to such forces as Podemos, Syriza and the Scottish National Party without abandoning the effort to construct revolutionary socialist organizations. In your miserable 4 decades on the left, you have done nothing but write these sterile critiques from the sidelines without ever having led a mass movement against any social injustice. The left has generally abandoned the Spartacist League politics you espouse and has moved on. It is really too bad that you are mired in the past but understandable. Cynthia Cochran once observed to me that the left in its impotent failure to constitute a real threat to the capitalist class has settled into a pattern of attacking the "traitors" in our midst. She was talking exactly about you.
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