tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post7331135564376806048..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Trotskyism On The VineDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-52844777693656984252008-05-31T12:50:00.000+01:002008-05-31T12:50:00.000+01:00"A Long or Coughlin"? No, a Keir Hardie. What Bill..."A Long or Coughlin"? No, a Keir Hardie. What Bill says is spot on. There have always been Trots and the like. Who cares? What NHS did they ever create? What student grants? What slum clearance? We want a proper Labour Party, like David is proposing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-9078568089457410852008-05-31T12:31:00.000+01:002008-05-31T12:31:00.000+01:00The Trots who appear regularly on Jeremy Vine are ...The Trots who appear regularly on Jeremy Vine are either from the Socialist Party (i.e., Militant) or from the Scottish Socialist Party, the one man band that became a no man band by expelling the one man.<BR/><BR/>David's position is perfectly coherent. You'll have to do better than that. Face it, there have been Marxist parties for ever. Nobody wants to know. What people need is a proper Labour Party, such as David sets out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-42559129983035991102008-05-30T19:45:00.000+01:002008-05-30T19:45:00.000+01:00Dear oh dear. On Vietnam we may have said one thin...Dear oh dear. On Vietnam we may have said one thing in public, but we said something quite different in private, and we sent the SAS anyway with the Australians. As co-chairs of the process we had innumer5able opportunities to call a spade a spade and yet failed to do so.<BR/><BR/>And please, please, stop describing as Trotskyists merely anyone who continued to claim that name after they had abandoned everything that Trotsky had stood for. Would you accept the claims of Catholics For A Free Choice as good coin? Or Tony Blair's claim to represent the Labour Party? Please stop being shoddily dishonest about anyhting Marxismt. Trotskyism can survive a Burnham, a Kristol, a Schachtman, and stands irreconcileably opposed to everything these apostates have gone on to do.<BR/><BR/>There are either global solutions or none. Once again, the absence of coherent economic thinking from your programme is starting to show. I fear you could end up being a Long or Coughlin if you're not careful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com