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> Marv Gandall wrote:
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>>> As an ex-Trotskyist, I'm confident in my ability to identify distinctive formulations which might point to Walsh's Trotskyist sympathies. Apart from his side reference to the "Stalinist" Communist Party,
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> And _that_ always ticks me off, just as Eric's reference to Trots ticked
> me off. Both phrases are really quite unnecessary and therefore quite
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The CP'ers described themselves as "Stalinists" in the 30s, so I don't find Walsh's offhand use of the adjective to describe the party in that period as "obnoxious" and certainly not on a par with Eric's venomous comments. I do agree that after de-Stalinization in the 50s, it no longer made sense to identify party members that way, and they now regarded it as an offensive. Shane Mage and others would not concur, but the fact that the CP's continued to promote popular fronts with liberal parties did not in itself make them "Stalinist".Their internal party regimes were now quite different, and social democratic parties also shared this strategy.