On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:40:52 -0500 Louis Proyect <[email protected]> writes: > Marv Gandall wrote: > > The CP was uniformally opposed to the Panthers' program and > tactics in much > > the same way the SWP was. Within both organizations, however, > there were > > members who had a more tolerant approach to the Panthers and those > who could > > barely contain their hostility - often corresponding to whether > they were > > working class veterans of the 30's who formed the core of the > leadership or > > younger 60's activists who had occasion for more frequent contact > with the > > BBP in common milieus. > > That was true initially but by 1970 all the Trotskyist youth had > become > fed up with the Panthers. With their Maoist "serve the people" crap, > > with their braggadocio, with their sexism (agreeing with Stokely > Carmichael the only position for women in the movement is "prone"), > with > their tendency to declare people counter-revolutionary at the drop > of a hat. >
It is perhaps telling that David Horowitz was gravitating towards the Panthers precisely at the time that most of the radical left was running the other way. Jim F. ____________________________________________________________ Medical Insurance Quotes Compare medical insurance companies and save money now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=FkdMopCGrXsU2pwSAiiorgAAJ1BRugI4sJACAWmXIev8NAFPAAQAAAAFAAAAAB3JmD4AAAMlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABJQNgAAAAA= ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
