By Telegraph Obituaries 19 May 2021 In the 1960s he defended the Trotskyist-Leninist ideal of permanent revolution built on the revolutionary consciousness of the working class
Cliff Slaughter, who has died aged 92, was an academic who inhabited those outer reaches of hard-Left socialism which, like extreme religious sects, are prone to mind-numbingly complex ideological splits, betrayals and expulsions – coupled with a level of personal vituperation that most people would find baffling – or even comical.... The remainder of the obit is behind a paywall at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/05/19/cliff-slaughter-sociologist-author-entwined-splits-factions/ And, from the International Committee of the Fourth International's website, there's this assessment by David North: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/06/slau-m06.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8785): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8785 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83129491/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
