Trotskyoid Sects (was Raimondo Does MoJo)

[Dennis Perrin]

> 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

Go to Lou Proyect's list -- the above is pretty much played out on a daily
basis. One guy there is going on about how Saddam's prisoner release is this
great human rights victory and a mobilization of the Iraqi masses -- or
something like that. Hard to tell sometimes, given the house style.

DP