[Marxism] : Joaquin re ISO, SWP, and Cuba (a ketter to Wakter Lippmann)

[Fred Feldman]

I want to thank you for your response to Joaquin's loony take on ISO vs. SWP
on Cuba, a purely theoretical burst which ignores the simple fact of which
side they are on.

I am afraid that this crap is all too typical of Joaquin today.  What you DO
in the antiwar movement or anywhere else is irrelevant, unless you have
Joaquin's theory.   I.e., he demands that all the existing sects become his
imaginary sect instead.  Not even Solidarity will do for him.  It is
inchoate and undisciplined and divided about Cuba but not the specific
Joaquin way.

The fact is that from the Dobbs and Hansen trip to Cuba in 1960 on, the SWP
-- small and irrelevant as it may seem in general today -- has been an
important defender of the Cuban revolution in the United States.

However much Joaquin may sneer at this, the Cubans do not, as their
collaboration in publishing projects shows. 

Joaquin's attempt to equate the SWP and ISO positions on purely theoretical
grounds shows the bizarre lengths of reality-denial that SWP-phobia can
produce.

His attempt to prove that hatred of the Cuban revolution is the same as love
of it since both are put forward by sectarian groups is simply an argument
against Marxist materialism, not to mention Goethe's empiricism -- "In the
beginning was the deed!"

Whatever may be wrong with the SWP, including about Cuba, a simple ability
to recognize obvious facts should be a minimum requirement for its critics,
myself and Walter included.
Fred