[lbo-talk] Re:Pugliese on Soli reading lists

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sat Jun 14 06:36:30 PDT 2003


Soli still have the Fourth Internationalist caucus?
> From Callicos short book on Trotskyism, published by Univ. of Minnesota
Press.
> ...From the mid-1970s onwards, however, the International Socialists,
> along with much of the rest of the American Left, developed a fairly
> uncritical enthusiasm for Third World movements such as the Sandinistas,
> even though these could as plausibly as the Viet Cong be depicted as the
> agents of bureaucratic collectivist revolution. This made it possible for
> the International Socialists, along with another grouping of Shachtmanite
> provenance, Workers’ Power, to form, together with dissident members of
> the American SWP, a new, broader far left organization, Solidarity, in
> 1985.

A small sect in Detroit, The Trotskyist League, if memory serves, was swallowed up by Soli last year.



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