Having now completed reading the third in Sean Matgamna’s series on Iraq, I want to return to a point he makes several times in the first of the series, the one published in early December in Solidarity.
In attempting to distinguish the views of the AWL from those of Labour Friends of Iraq (LFIQ), Sean makes use on several occasions of the word “Menshevik
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It’s not hard to see why you are suddenly proud to be a Menshevik, Lee: you totally misunderstand history, and slander the bolsheviki — and so you easily fit in with all the usual social-democrat backstabbing. Frankly, I didn’t really pay much attention to your argument above, past the point where it starts careening into plain wrong comic-book cliches. Understand that you really can be seen to be just the latest in a LONG line of a certain type of rightward-drifting (maybe former?) leftist…
“Darkness at Noon” stuff, Hmm?
And maybe this guy is wrong to characterize the Iraq situation the way he does (not looking at what he wrote as it’s not germane to this discussion) — but you: you’re just taking advantage of some straw man here in order to press forward with your — I’m sorry to say — IMO rather rightwing unionist position.
For quite some time now, numerous stances associated with LabourStart have put me on my guard — and the above just goes to prove why, in spades. (your support for the U.S. military regime-backed Iraqi “company unions” comes immediately to mind) But that’s no reason we can’t work together in a united front in future — as the point of united fronts is to allow revolutionary forces to work with those other, vacillating, untrustworthy forces which are not quite sure what side they are on at any particular moment.
But frankly: you should be ashamed of yourself Eric Lee. You are INDEED a Menshevik in some fundamental sense — the worst sense AFAIC. But your site is still valuable at that, and communists like myself can and will still work with your type in limited ways. But I’ll be damned if I’ll ever actually recommend you and yours to any impressionable komrads as examples to actually follow.