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On 3/8/16 8:57 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:
It might also be worth examining Annis's trajectory over the years. Was he
a Barnesite? Does he have much influence now?
He has plenty of influence but not on Marxmail where he lurks. Using
CounterPunch as a platform, he can join fellow Putinites such as Pepe
Escobar, Mike Whitney, John Wight, and Andre Vltchek. Unlike them, he
can throw around the Marxish references to Lenin, etc.
But in terms of his trajectory, I would say that he is a stone-cold
Marcyite, probably without even being fully aware that he is. One of the
main symptoms is his affinity with Sam Williams, who was likely a member
of Workers World based on his reference to Jon Britton on his blog: "It
was in this period [the 1970s] that I met my friend and collaborator Jon
Britton. With his help and encouragement, I began to write articles for
the socialist press, though under a different name."
(https://critiqueofcrisistheory.wordpress.com/about/)
Britton was a really good guy, unlike his asshole brother Joel. Why he
joined Workers World is an enduring mystery to me.
In any case, comrades have to understand that this analysis is shared by
a huge majority of the left with few people having a clue who Sam Marcy
was. When he backed the Russian tanks against Hungarians fighting
Stalinist oppression in 1956, he anticipated much of what can be read on
CounterPunch on a daily basis. Not just there, but all over the
place--like Stephen Cohen in the Nation, Patrick L. Smith in Salon, the
LRB ad nauseam. As has always been the case, Stalinism,
crypto-Stalinism, and liberal realpolitik are joined at the hip.
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