From, "Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism, " by Peter Beilharz, Croom Helm, 1987, a great critique of LDT, Mandel, C.L.R. James, Deutscher and Dunayevskaya, pg. 47, quoting from LDT, "The Struggle Against Fascism In Germany," pg. 254, Pathfinder ed.
"A cattle dealer once drove some bulls to the slaughter-house. And the butcher came nigh with his sharp knife. 'Let us close ranks and jack up this executioner on our horns', suggested one of the bulls. 'If uou please, in what way is the butcher any worse than the dealer who drove us hither with his cudgel?' replied the bulls, who had received their political education in Manuilsky's Institute. 'But we shall be able to attend to the dealer afterwards!' 'Nothing doing', replied the bulls, firm in their principles, to the counsellor. 'You are trying to shield our enemies from the left; you are a social-butcher yourself.' And they refused to close ranks." -- Michael Pugliese P.S. Experiment time. Same as formatted w/the tool Kelley or Kevin suggested, as I've been using. <URL:http://www.mceahern.com/mceahern/tools/format.html > Can't understand why the (ill-advised 12 KB complete palestinechronicle URL'lery came out crooked.I've been using the tool since they told the list about it, and they show up in the digest like a Zukofsky poem.) Gregory Geboski...Or maybe the Bush regime IS dangerously different. Maybe much of the Left response is (sorry for the flame bait, but there it is) eerily similar to the CP's 1930s arguments that there was little real difference between fascists and capitalist-appeasing social democrats-- arguments that were, from what I can see, for the most part sincere (certainly among the party rank-and-file), correct in most particulars, and generally as cogent as Anderson's.
From, "Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism, " by Peter Beilharz, Croom Helm, 1987, a great critique of LDT, Mandel, C.L.R. James, Deutscher and Dunayevskaya, pg. 47, quoting from LDT, "The Struggle Against Fascism In Germany," pg. 254, Pathfinder ed. "A cattle dealer once drove some bulls to the slaughter-house. And the butcher came nigh with his sharp knife. 'Let us close ranks and jack up this executioner on our horns', suggested one of the bulls. 'If uou please, in what way is the butcher any worse than the dealer who drove us hither with his cudgel?' replied the bulls, who had received their political education in Manuilsky's Institute. 'But we shall be able to attend to the dealer afterwards!' 'Nothing doing', replied the bulls, firm in their principles, to the counsellor. 'You are trying to shield our enemies from the left; you are a social-butcher yourself.' And they refused to close ranks."