Re: Trot'ism

1997-12-31 Thread Louis Proyect
Robin Hahnel: > Define political vanguardism however you want, >postulate a perfect practice of your own definition of political >vanguardism, and then tell me if you think that there is any useful role >for this kind of political activism in progressive political activity in >the twenty-first cen

Re: Trot'ism

1997-12-31 Thread Robin Hahnel
> >I'll take your word on this, Lou - and Trotsky himself was no fool, for > >sure. But what happened? Why did Trotskyist groups - all Marxist groups > >did, but it seems to be most extreme among Trot formations - show such a > >prediliction for rigidity, cultishness, and schism? Why have they bee

Re: Trot'ism

1997-12-31 Thread Louis Proyect
>I'll take your word on this, Lou - and Trotsky himself was no fool, for >sure. But what happened? Why did Trotskyist groups - all Marxist groups >did, but it seems to be most extreme among Trot formations - show such a >prediliction for rigidity, cultishness, and schism? Why have they been >reduc

Trot'ism

1997-12-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis N Proyect wrote: >There is no question that one of the reasons that Judith Butler and >Foucalt seem like a necessary "corrective" to you is that you view the >Spartacist League as bonafide Trotskyism. Nothing can be further from the >truth. I'll take your word on this, Lou - and Trotsky hi