> On Jun 29, 2026, at 08:06, Anthony Teso via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark, you're right to press it. The Cannon "mistakes" Michael keeps gesturing > at are the WWII drift where the SWP's anti-fascism started doing the ranking > work, treating a German/Japanese victory as the thing to be prevented rather > than holding "the main enemy is at home" symmetrically. That's the slide I > flagged in my reply to David. But notice Michael invokes it and then insists > it has nothing to do with the PMP which is exactly the quarantine I don't > think survives contact with the British case. As for his critique of the PMP, > he says he has none, that the RCIT has "always supported" it. Which is why I > find his use of the Cannon episode puzzling—he wants the mistake without the > policy that, in my view, made it likely.
You know that Cannon was one of two-dozen members of the SWP and Teamsters Local 544 who were imprisoned under the Smith Act during WWII for their revolutionary defeatism. I'd like to see what the supposed "drift" actually was, but I wonder if it isn't like accusing Gramsci of using double-talk in his prison notebooks. thanks, Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42233): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42233 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119987077/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
