[Marxism] THE AGE (Melbourne, Australia): Nuclear no nightmare, says unionism's new face

[David Picón Álvarez]

> Are "Trotskyists", broadly defined enough to include the DSP, especially
> prone to being renegade? Of course there's a few spectacular cases like
> Hitchens and the charming pair above but I would think  of the hundreds of
> thousands who've been Trotskyists who'd find these only a small 
> proportion,
> a lot more remaining progressive in some way or becoming harmless enough.

Well, I've read (don't know how true it is) that the intellectual core of 
neoconservatism is mostly constituted by ex-trotskyists. For whatever 
conjunctural reason (probably Franco's dictatorship didn't help) trotskyism 
never had much pull in Spain, so I think to this day I haven't yet met any 
in the flesh.

--David.