tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564864683183121263.post134314335264024907..comments2023-11-02T01:23:02.711-07:00Comments on whatever happened to leon trotsky?: Communist Students conferenceDavid Broderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06519934479228292062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564864683183121263.post-90870332822172592572008-03-04T15:46:00.000-08:002008-03-04T15:46:00.000-08:00A small point, I was always against WP sharing a p...A small point, I was always against WP sharing a platform with the Nazis and said so at the time.<BR/>The point is that by failing to differentiate between the Nazis and other "bourgeois" candidates, then you are failing to demonstrate the qualitative distinction between them.<BR/>Fascist candidates seek to organise and encourage physical assaults against members of the student body. The other candidates don't.bill jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15621462975674718496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564864683183121263.post-41515670822223005472008-02-19T10:58:00.000-08:002008-02-19T10:58:00.000-08:00Fair comment - I appear to have amalgamated your p...Fair comment - I appear to have amalgamated your position with that of others who are roughly on "your side". <BR/><BR/>I'll change it to make it more accurateanonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00432489356958540355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564864683183121263.post-83381995649462206992008-02-19T10:50:00.000-08:002008-02-19T10:50:00.000-08:00Just a clarifying note - my argument is not about ...Just a clarifying note - my argument is not about 'legitimacy' or any such thing. Although it's clearly true that the BNP <I>claims</I> that its appearances on the likes of the OXford Union platform represents a 'coming in from the cold', neither they nor anybody else seriously believe this - viz the enraged editorialisation against having to share a platform with David Irving. They know, we know and everybody else knows that they're basically a gallery of freaks in such circumstances.<BR/><BR/>The actual source of their legitimacy is the vacation of the pro-welfare-state etc agenda by the Labour Party, and the concomitant immiseration of layers of the working class, as many people pointed out during the meeting. I am suspicious of the <I>efficacy</I> of debates in anti-fascist struggle because it just seems somewhat mismatched to the nature of fascism and - <I>particularly</I> in this period - the nature of fascist support.<BR/><BR/>Mine and Dave I's 'position paper' on all this is hopefully in this week's Worker, although there appeared to be a few copies floating around at the conference.Harley Filbenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07722993140646956149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564864683183121263.post-74236558156328117062008-02-18T20:55:00.000-08:002008-02-18T20:55:00.000-08:00Much more interesting than the US left.Much more interesting than the US left.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.com