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I'd be quite happy to discuss this further, but what I meant is mostly the ongoing silly preoccupation with the well-being of this or that masonic lodge versus that of its rivals. With some exceptions of persons, times and places, I think this describes the process on balance.Something that continued as everything began collapsing. People who became gurus in this process couldn't jettison what made them gurus. In the wake of the 2014 election, an ex-SWPer (of much more recent vintage than most of us) insisting that 500 socialist votes in Ohio would be vastly more important politically than the 104,000 that went to the Greens. (I think he--and know that most who were agreeing with him--wound up supporting Bernie Sanders who was, after all a "socialist.") This was a young man (not really so young, who was severely miseducated in a quasi-religious kind of sectarianism. (Certainly one that believes in magic words.) ML _________________________________________________________ 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
