Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle

[Mr P.A. Van Heusden]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> And now a prediction rather than an argument: leninists (small "l"
> deliberate)
> will prove less allergic to messy conditions then anarchists over the long
> haul, and the anarchists will do one of three things: (a) go off and sulk,
> saying oh fuck it politics aint worth it (b) cease being anarchists and
> become fellow-travellers or 

(c) form into small intenselfy disciplined
> anarchist groups of their own (the discipline of such groups is always
> tighter and more onerous than that of Leninist groups).

What, you mean like the 'black bloc'? :)

Seriously though, Leninists (or semi- or ex-Leninists) only shoot
themselves in the foot when they see a movement as merely the recruiting
ground for the 'real politics' of their organisations (in the Trotskyite
camp, I'll note that the modern Spartacist League and the International
Socialism tendency tend to do this).

Remember: '[The Communists] have no interests separate and apart from
those of the proletariat as a whole.'

Peter
--
Peter van Heusden : pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk : PGP key available
Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man
shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the 
chain and pluck the living flower. - Karl Marx 

           NOTE: I do not speak for the HGMP or the MRC.