> by puhleeze

>And the track record of Varlet's tatical orientation in the >past two decades has been exactly what? Hundreds of >thousands of union workers flocking to join the >revolutionary movement are they? With a vibrant Trotskyist >vanguard party ready to take the helm? LOL.

The Trotskyist movement in the US, such as it is, has been run very poorly the past 30 years, so far as organizing the working class is concerned. They have not even been able to describe to the working class the basic concept of how socialism would improve their lives materially. They've done a piss-poor job of it, really.

But they have done quite well theoretically (if by "we" we mean "Spartacists") in warning the working class of many false prophets of the left and right that have held the working class in thrall (Allende, Ayatollah Khomeini) and have warned us of other fake workers movements as well (Solidarnosc, Stalinism,).

Cynics like "puhleeze" have been present to sneer at every revolutionary workers movement from time immemorial - from the age of Spartacus to the period of the Paris Commune to the rise of Lenin's Bolsheviks to the present day. Cynicism hasn't achieved a damn thing for anyone, ever. Cynics always stand opposed to every revolutionary movement before the revolution... only to glom onto it after its success, then to drag it down by shamelessly fawning over the "great Stalin", the "Great Helmsman" or some other reactionary "great leader" afterwards.

The Great Cynic "Puhleeze" wants to criticise the Trotskyist movement? Puhleeeze!

Varlet