On Nov 1, 2006, at 12:15 AM, ravi wrote:
> At around 31/10/06 11:39 pm, Carrol Cox wrote:
>> One side, essentially, holds that no progressive ends can be
>> achieved except through the DP. The other side, essentially, holds
>> that
>> the DP is the prime barrier to progressive ends.
>>
>
> I think you are misreading the ABB (for want of a better term)
> position,
> which many have expressed here and I have some sympathy with. It is
> not
> true that they hold that no progressive ends can be achieved except
> through the DP. The argument rather is whether there is anything at
> all
> to be gained through the DP or is it a lost cause, or worse a prime
> barrier as you hold. As we all seem to agree these things are not
> binary
> issues...
Carrol is as dogmatic on this issue as the most dogmatic Trotskyist. There's no reasoning with him. ABBers ruined the antiwar movement, don't you see? I could go on.
Doug