>Do we have to refight the war between the anti-commies and the
>anti-anti-commies? Hard to see how it has much enduring relevance,
>although I suppose which stance one happens to take generally correlates
>with a host of other ideological commitments that do still matter.
>
Oh, it has lots of continuing relevance. This way, when newcomers or
young'uns come in, the older cranks can denounce them as revanchists or
Schactmanites or bourgeous adventurists or neo-liberals or running dog
lackeys. Then the newcomers have to go off and research things like the
Ludlow Massacre and the Kronstadt Uprising and analyze them unto the
fifth decimal place so they can place themselves in a very specific and
particular sect. Then they can throw the same epithets at the newcomers
they have to deal with.