I found this account of the RCP interesting apart from the section about "strike-chasing". That seemed to me to be the expression of a very bitter disillusionment. Though having spent some years in Trotskyist sects I found it easy to forgive the bitterness.
My own take on the RCP theorists is that they moved from Marx (Lukacs?) to Nietzsche. though I do not read enough of their stuff to be able to document that. I once exchanged a few emails with James Heartfield and cited his work in various places and I did have a soft spot for him and noted his later political degeneration with some sadness. The reference to Douglas Hyde brought back memories of my Catholic childhood selling Catholic papers that circulated his column. The wiki on him is interesting in that it tells us he moved away from Catholicism and back towards socialism before his death. My final thought is that traitors from the Left do receive a lot of favorable publicity as the writer points out. But overall we old Lefties remain true to the cause. It is just that the Murdoch press is never going to tell anyone that. cormadely Gary On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 6:20 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://communistpartyofgreatbritainhistory.wordpress.com/2020/09/28/the-revolutionary-communist-party-rcp-was-really-nothing-special/ > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2026): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2026 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77182941/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
