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[Michael Hoover]

> Certain topics deserve a final burial. Among those are the 
> Nazi-Soviet pact, the class nature of the USSR (deformed or 
> degenerated worker state? dunno Regis, what do you think?), and the 
> Rosenbergs. These are not yet auto-taboo words, but they're getting 
> mighty close. It's 1999, fer chrissakes, and for not much longer. 
> Let's move on and leave these wrenching debates to the sectarians.
> Doug

So that lbo-ers can engage in really useful discussions like 'Anarchism v 
Marxism'...

re. sectarians, Granville Hicks, in responding to James T. Farrell's
attack (_A Note on Literary Criticism_) on CP and *New Masses*,
acknowledged constraining elements but suggested that sectarianism
of Marxist (that is, party) critics was necessary response to 
aestheticism of bourgeois critics who deemed working class experience
unsuitable for literature...   Michael Hoover