On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 02:25 PM, David Walters wrote:
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> stop calling the PSL "Trotskyist". No Trotskyist consider them as such,...
PSL tries to play the game of denying that it is either Trotskyist or
Stalinist. The facts say otherwise.
* The parent Workers World Party did split from the Trotskyist SWP in 1959. At
that time, WWP proudly proclaimed, "We are THE Trotskyists. We stand 100% with
all the principled positions of Lenin and Trotsky, the most revolutionary
communist since Lenin." (Workers World, May, 1959).
* In a 1993 speech, guru Sam Marcy spoke of "the struggle between the policy of
accommodation and conciliation of the Soviet leadership under Stalin versus the
revolutionary program of Trotsky." ("The specter of fascism," Workers World,
December 30, 1993).
* Brian Becker in Nov. 2016 virtually dismissed Lenin's What Is to Be Done?,
distanced PSL from Bolshevism, and emphasized the long period when Trotsky "was
not a Bolshevik." ("The Leninist party in history and the present")
So whether other Trotskyists consider PSL to be such or not, and remembering
that Trotskyism is littered with groups denying that other groups in the trend
are Trotskyist, it is clear that PSL is a variant of Trotskyism.
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