tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post5596492061715214747..comments2024-03-12T02:18:53.121-07:00Comments on Molly'sBlog: mollymewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10608757779720671118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-16271567643318629132008-01-30T22:34:00.000-08:002008-01-30T22:34:00.000-08:00Tell you what. Take three valium and wait patientl...Tell you what. Take three valium and wait patiently guy. I'll get around to answering you in a seperate post. You only have to check back here once a day. Relax. It's been years since I argued with a Trotskyist. There just aren't enough left so that I am likely to meet many. But, for old times sake, I'll get to it this one time. Hopefully see you on the weekend.mollymewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10608757779720671118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-42567193195045334582008-01-29T20:03:00.000-08:002008-01-29T20:03:00.000-08:00Comrade,I would like to thank you for referring to...Comrade,<BR/><BR/>I would like to thank you for referring to the article I co-authored, “High Strike Rate and Factory Occupations in Canada.” I take special compliment from this because even 6 months after the fact, and with you as far away as Manitoba, our reportage is among the only information available, and quite possibly the only one that came from a revolutionary perspective at the time. The fact that you, someone who is obviously very hostile to our ideas (even though you admit to not actually knowing fully what our ideas are, our “flavour”), is still forced to use our analysis as a source of information in your own analysis is a very flattering vindication of our methods.<BR/><BR/>I would also like to assure you, and more importantly your readers, that all the information contained in all of our analysis and articles is fully researched and verified. While you may harbour misgivings about the theory of Marxism, I would like to suggest that the accusation of us being liars is not really accurate, as it substitutes a personal attack for a political one. You and I could, in a fully comradely manner, debate political ideology in a constructive and mutually beneficial manner to no end, and I would welcome that as a positive use of both our time. That is the very nature of dialectics after all. However to assign a personal defect, in this case dishonesty, to a whole range of political ideology (for as you know there are many different grouping of communists which are just as varied in their beliefs as those who call themselves anarchists) is not constructive nor does it fit within in the rich democratic traditions of the labour movement as a whole.<BR/><BR/>I’m confident that you and I, as well as all Marxists and anarchists in general, can move past sectarian slanders and name calling and remind ourselves that we share more common ground than any two other ideologies have in human history. That ground is rich, broad and it is binding, for that ground is the working-class itself.<BR/><BR/>In Solidarity,<BR/>Julian Benson<BR/>Fightback<BR/>www.Marxist.ca<BR/>www.Marxist.comJulian Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00482753001744296385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-16144546923921628332008-01-29T17:42:00.000-08:002008-01-29T17:42:00.000-08:00That's a cool pic!That's a cool pic!English republicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16640500000189617893noreply@blogger.com