On 4/25/21 5:02 AM, Dayne Goodwin wrote:
I wrote a long autobiographical response to Alan's 2011 comments
reflecting on my own SWP experiences (1969 - 1982/3) and my
twenty-five years of post-SWP experience frequently working with Peter
Camejo (1983 - 2008). It is posted on the Solidarity website:
"What happened to the SWP (U.S.)?: Recent memoirs stir discussion"
by Dayne Goodwin, September 27, 2011
https://solidarity-us.org/what_happened_to_the_swp/
<https://solidarity-us.org/what_happened_to_the_swp/>
"By late August I was looking forward to functioning as ‘organizer’ of
the relatively large and confident Logan YSA when I was unhappily
bludgeoned by telephone calls from YSA regional organizer Steve Bloom
and from Dave Frankel in the national office in NYC."
I had been in the YSA for about 6 months when I joined comrades selling
the Young Socialist at the Stop the Draft Week protests in NYC in 1967.
As someone new to hawking newspapers, I was probably not as aggressive
as more experienced members but little did I expect to get a kind of
judo chop on the back of my neck from Dave Frankel. He said, "Sell,
comrade, sell." Of all the assholes I ran into in the Trotskyist
movement, this guy was the worst. He was so obnoxious that he wasn't
even allowed into the inner sanctum in NYC grouped around Charlie
Bolduc, the SWP organizer. I heard that Bolduc, a closeted gay, drank
himself to death after quitting the SWP. As for Frankel, I've never
found a single reference to him on the net. I wouldn't be surprised that
he became a real estate salesman after dropping out.
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