https://johnriddell.com/2018/11/26/rwl-lor-explaining-a-failed-fusion/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://johnriddell.com/2018/11/26/rwl-lor-explaining-a-failed-fusion/#comment-10655 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:13:37 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5182#comment-10655 There’s a lot to digest in John’s posting and in the comments.
But there’s one factor I’d like to add.
I believe there were people who thought we’d be better off without some of the members we had.
I think for some people the industrial turn was made precisely to rid ourselves of “petty bourgeois elements.”
I think the SWP leadership was uncomfortable with a diverse Canadian group where not everyone necessarily agreed with the SWP.

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