I have a theory about these trotskyoid sects. Why are they so small? It's because there is a pecking order in these groups and, secretly, many members aspire to be members of the Central Committee. When it becomes apparent to one particularly ambitious member that s/he is not going to make it to "the top" through the "democratic centralist" process, S/he just finds a reason for a split, rallies a few other people who want to be members of a Central Committee and, voila you got yourself a new trotskyoid sect, with all the trimmings: newspaper with capitvating headlines like: "Overthrow Capitalism", "What Is To Be Done Already Again","Why the Socialist Communist Progressive Labor Worker Revolutionary Number 840567 to the 10th Power Party Is The Vanguard Party", "Long Live Comrade Joe Schmoe, Chairman of SCPLWR Number 840567 to the 10th Power P!", "Chairman Schmoe Affirms in Plenary Session that 'Capitalism is bad'", "Free the Peoria 1", "Chairman Schmoe On 'Divide and Rule: A Pernicious Capitalist Tactic'".
Thomas
===== "A question is always the desire to know, and to preserve simple human truths, we need secrets. The secrets of happiness, death, love."
>From the movie "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky
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