It didn't start with the Sparts...and it won't end thereeither, if these comrades keep it up...

Nathan Newman nathan.newman at yale.edu
Tue Nov 23 20:20:47 PST 1999



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> My god. What is it about Trots? Put three of them together in a room
> and in 5 minutes you'll have two new parties and a tendency. Is there
> some conjunction between the doctrine and a particular
> psychopathology? Can someone explain this?

I did hear on good authority (meaning probably a leftwing urban legend) of one Trot sect reduced to the leader, his wife and son, until the wife and son left, leaving him along in his sect, until he developed multiple personalities and a political split of course soon followed.

-- Nathan



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