It's easy to imagine a Trot calling someone a Stalinist. There were plenty of both around. Admittedly it's off-key to hear a Stalinist call a Trot a reformist. I don't remember any Trot-reformists. The Stalinists were the reformists! The SWP was accused of being soft with its "peace-crawls" (sic), but usually by uber-Trots. Maybe it was a Trot-on-Trot situation, like Spy versus Spy.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Max Sawicky wrote: >> I have. Though the 'bitch' part does seem dubious. >> > > There is still a lack of analysis, leaving aside the language. > After many years of feminist impact on the Marxist left, you > simply would not hear the word "bitch" being used in such an > exchange since it would compromise the person using it. > > But who on the left would ostensibly be in such a fracas, with one > participant calling the other a "reformist" and the other > retorting "Stalinist". This does *not make sense* in political > terms. I think that this is just made up nonsense meant to appeal > to the middle class prejudices of the people who buy such a book. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
