stereotypes (?)

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Fri Jun 1 08:39:24 PDT 2001


Kelley>option 2: why don't you go out and create that party and teach everyone how to do it right. anyone can grow up to be lenin!

Michael Rotkin on his door to his faculty office at UCSC had a great cartoon from Radical America sometime in the 70's during the "new communist" party building days. (See, btw, for a serious article on same, Allen Hunter from RA around '79, "American Leninism in the 70's, " lotsa good stuff on October League, RCP...) "Build your own communist party! Names? Pick and choose from (Marxist-Leninist or M-L for short), Proletarian, Workers, Vanguard, Provisional, Revolutionary, Communist..."

John Trinkl who wrote for the Guardian was reputed to have been working on a book on on M-L in the 70's but, I've never seen any sign of it. This by, A. Belden Fields http://www.maoism.org/misc/usa/trotskyism_maoism/tm_toc.htm (Trotskyism and Maoism: Theory and Practice in France and the United States) www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/Vol3/No2/Fields.html , is o.k. but friends who were there say the treatment of some aspects is off-key.

And this from the larger of the FRSO's is a good geneology of the maoist branches. http://www.freedomroad.org/whoweare/familytree/familytree.html http://www.freedomroad.org/whoweare/familytree/megatree.html

Also see a new book, "Legacy to liberation : politics and culture of revolutionary Asian Pacific America, " ed. by Ho, Fred Wei-han. Antonio, Carolyn. San Francisco : AK Press ; Brooklyn, NY ; Big Red Media, 2000. Michael Pugliese P.S. To kelly and/or justin, send this to carrol, he has me in his "kill file"!



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