[Marxism] The DSP's history of public debate (was: Clarification from Ed Lewis)

[Ambrose Andrews]

If you are expecting a parrallel public polemical battle (with a whole
lot of new participants outside the party) over the core issues in
dispute between the platforms in this forum then I suspect your
expectations will not be fulfilled.  That would take a decision of the
party, and would be subject to considerations of what beneifts _for
the party_ might be had by such a step and what costs it might have.
As you say elsewhere though, the important discussion for the DSP
at the moment is the discussion *in* the DSP.

As to the 'perestroika' about publishing LPF documents, two minority
reports to the last Congress on January 2006 were published.  The
LPF as such didn't exist at that time.  As for precedents for publishing
major documents of minority factions...  well there haven't been too
many minority factions that didn't rapidly jump ship to make a
precedent out of.

DSP members disagree in public in various forums, over various
things.  I can think of examples too - not on marxmail but on the
greenleft_discussion and swp_usa lists.  Generally speaking this
public disagreement will not extend to campaigns of attack on the
party's adopted positions on what it is currently trying to achieve.
Is this a surprise?

  -AA.



On 28/12/2007, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe that will lead to a defense of Diana Johnstone? Not.
>

Yeah nice one.  Why would anyone disagree with Louis unless they
ere being forced to do so?

  -AA.



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