[Marxism] Sectarianism red in tooth and claw

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:43:50 +1000
>From: "Greg Adler" <grega2728 at gmail.com>
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>The Mazelis piece is raddled with plitical misrepresentations and falsifications.

Be specific. I pointed out one misrepresentation, but I didn't catch any others.

>It's not the fault of poor old Fred other than that he has invested so much of his life in the political dead-end of this brand of sectarianism and now carries out a character/political assasination of
>Camejo as a way of innoculating fellow faith holders against the infection carried by the memory of a man who actually attempted to build a real movement for fundamental change.

I have no interest in defending Fred Mazelis, even if I was in those long-ago days a casual personal friend of his and of his wife Sylvia. But Fred Mazelis has, or at least once had, "actually attempted to build a real movement for fundamental change", even if his approach is sectarian. Peter Camejo tried to build a mass movement on an opportunist basis. Both ignore the parasitic relationship of U.S. society to the "third world", a.k.a. the "global South", which is the main obstacle to building a real movement for fundamental change in the U.S..

>Greg Adler

 - Aaron