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Decades ago, I spent a few years in the Workers League, the offspring of the old Socialist Workers Party that led to the current abomination of the Worldwide Socialist Web. The nemesis of the Workers League was the Spartacisoid League which was inhabited by alcoholic vampires and psychological damaged people. One person who had passed through both of these august sects was a guy named Shane Mage. Mage, despite his descent from Healyite orthodoxy into Spatracisoid heresy and even worse, psychidelic Buddhism, as held in some esteem by Workers League leaders. apparently, he had been a smart guy. So when some one using that name popped up on this list, I paid attention. Must be a different person, I thought. Anthony Shane Mage <shm...@pipeline.com> To: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Stalinist-Trotskyist bromance Message-ID: <de7aa513-bd72-4a3b-b67c-660557748...@pipeline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes On Nov 5, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: >> > > So weird to see Shane fulminating against the Fourth International > for adapting to Stalinism when his primary role on Marxmail is to > serve as a transmission belt for RT.com talking points. I wonder where on "RT.com" (which, in fact, I have never even seen-- except maybe for occasional and unnoteworthy reposts on Johnson's Russia List) it describes Putin as a "Czar" or refers to his KGB status. Louis and a few others posting on Syria and the Ukraine could perhaps more properly be described as "a transmission belt for Washington Post Editorial Board talking points," but since I refuse to accept slander as an acceptable element in political discussion I would never say any such thing. Shane Mage _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
