Spart history (was Re: Butler on Spivak (was SZ))

[Liza Featherstone]

I've talked to the guy who does this site. The hilarity is intentional, but
sporadically so; he's a bit of a nutter -- sometimes really really seems to
believe that the GTL is a party-building enterprise with revolutionary
potential and is genuinely earnestly outraged by the ideological crimes
committed by other Trots (about which he has an extreeemely detailed
historical knowledge) sometimes is engaged in full-on self-conscious parody
of loony sectarianism. Maybe it's sectarianism for the Judy Butler
generation!

Liza Featherstone


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Spart history (was Re: Butler on Spivak (was SZ))
>Date: Tue, Nov 23, 1999, 1:19 PM
>


>Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote:
>
>>And if you want a truly wierd take on all of this, look up the Sparts'
>>fellow travellers in the 'Generic Trotskyist League, 40% off'.
>
><http://www.angelfire.com/ca/gentrotsky/>. Truly hilarious stuff, 
>though I can't tell whether the hilarity is intentional or not. From 
>the ditty on their opening page:
>
>"We Are Trotskyists And We Know How To Rap
>We Are Sick Of All This Petit-Bourgeois Crap
>Because We Stand For Independence Of The Working Class
>We Don't Dissolve Ourselves In The Reactionary Mass."
>
>Doug
>