Being wholly uninterested in this sort of b.s., I've studiously avoided the power plays in most of these organizations. Maybe I should remain in blissful ignorance, but could someone explain how someone "engineers a split" and WTF they do it. It just reads like some crappy, pedestrian office politics!
Quoting the page above:
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.
"We're in a fucking stagmire."
--Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'