WSWS/SEP (formerly "Workers League") are the ultimate sectarians. They still peddle Gerry Healy's canard that leaders of the SWP (U.S.) were involved in organizing the assassination of Trotsky.
On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 5:11 AM Tristan Sloughter <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a very good article in the World Socialist Web Site that > dismantles this idea: Gerald Horne's counterrevolution against 1776 > <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/18/horn-m18.html>. WSWS has > done a remarkable job covering this, from a Marxist perspective. > > > This article is a joke: > > "The longstanding appreciation of the American Revolution’s direct impact > on the French Revolution of 1789, and all the revolutions that were to > follow—a position supported by Marx and Engels—would also be false." > > That isn't how anything works. Having a better understanding today of the > causes behind the American Revolution does not change history resulting in > it no longer having had an impact on other revolutions. > > "Moreover, if the British Empire were the revolutionary force in the > contest with the American colonists, the well-established understanding of > its centrality to imperialist reaction over the course of the 19th > century—in Ireland, India, Egypt, China and South Africa, to name a few > places—would also be called into question." > > Clearly this person is not engaging seriously, > _ > _._,_._,_ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8382): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8382 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82563203/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
