>Another Kewrryite lie. Ubu called himself a *war* president--and
>Kewrry immediately replied that he would be one too, only better at it.
>But yesterday Ubu made a speech promising to become a "peace
>president." Will Kewrry now imitate him--or will he accuse Ubu of
>preparing to "cut and run"--or do both at the same time? I await
>with unbated breath.
So what's this all about, Shane? <http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no7/no07geof.html>:
>Trotsky observed that revolutions and revolutionary movements have a
>tendency to devour their children. The difficulty of ''swimming
>against the stream'' in bourgeois society wears many revolutionaries
>out. Some ''reinterpret'' Marxism to conform to various
>non-revolutionary appetites. Others just fade away. Today, none of
>the original leaders of the RT (Tim Wohlforth, Shane Mage, James
>Robertson and Geoff White) still adhere to the revolutionary
>perspectives of the RT. Wohlforth was the first. Less than a year
>after the RT was launched, he engineered a criminal split of the
>tendency at the behest of Gerry Healy, leader of the British
>Socialist Labour League. Shane Mage, the group's somewhat erratic
>theoretician, spun out of the movement a few years later. James
>Robertson alone has remained active in organized politics but, in
>the course of transforming the once-revolutionary Spartacist League
>into a pseudo-Trotskyist obedience cult, he too has broken with his
>own revolutionary past. As for Geoff White, he simply dropped out of
>revolutionary politics in 1968. Yet his contributions, and those of
>the other RTers, live on.
>