Sharing this for perhaps the 7th time in the past 18 months, Horne responding to the WSWS re: 1619
https://washingtonbabylon.com/nyt-1619-horne/ It seems that WSWS is littered with little more than false tautologies and cliches. For instance, one can easily transpose the argument about the French/Haitian inspiration from 1776 into the 20th century re: the Russian revolution. Even though we now know a great deal about Stalin that is quite awful, does that somehow invalidate the amazing work of Communists in America that were inspired by the purported example of the Soviet Union? Did Stalin’s humanitarian abuses invalidate the support for the Scottsboro boys, the International Brigades, and the union organizing during the Depression? It is an absurd claim predicated upon a grotesque notion about history and the human aspiration for greater quality of life. This is precisely what I find so noxious about these strains of Trotskyism, it throws the baby out with the bath water -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8386): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8386 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
