HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION

[Chuck Munson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> jacdon at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> >Chuck0 wrote:
> >
> >>I'm not one of those who is interested in "building the left," mainly
> >>because this abstract phrase is a codeword for "building authoritarian
> >>sectarian parties." Don't like the fire, Jack? Things have changed.
> >
> >
> >Unfortunately, things have not changed enough.  The same sectors of the
> >left which seemed to direct most of their fire at others on the left, to
> >the detriment of the struggle against the actual enemy, appear to have
> >learned nothing and forgotten nothing for the last hundred years.  For
> >the anarchist sector, the compelling need to focus upon and excoriate
> >Marxism has been going on for 150 years.  Your disinterest in building
> >the left is entirely clear.  Very little has changed in this respect.
> 
> You know, there are a lot of people who consider themselves Marxists
> - starting with me and the author of the Nation piece you dismissed
> as "sectarian
> and naive" - who aren't fond of IAC and ANSWER. Just as Zionists
> dismiss criticism of Israel as "anti-Semitic," sectarians dismiss
> criticism of their sects as red-baiting.
> 
> It's pretty funny to claim that it's anarchists spend much of their
> time criticizing other leftists rather than the bourgies. No one does
> that better than the Trots. Workers Vanguard spends as much time
> denouncing the ISO and other "fake Trotskyists" (as if the currency
> were so valuable you'd want to counterfeit it!) as it does on the
> real enemy.

Case in point: the alt.politics.socialism.trotsky newsgroup.

Biggest sectarian circle jerk happening on a daily basis.

But Doug is right, those who are tired of the IAC's shenanigans come from
a cross-section of the left. 

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