"Lauter, Paul" wrote: > Third, I don't buy the theory that anti-Left activity derived mainly > from a reaction to movement excesses in and after 1968. Yes, that was an > element. There is a fundamental weakness to all arguments that ascribe left weakness to left excesses. There will *always* be excesses (both "sincere" and created by police provocateurs) -- so a left that can't flourish despite any and all excesses is a left that isn't going anyplace. Complaining about left excesses is like complaining about the weather. Excesses of all kinds are just part of capitalist weather. There's a nice passage in the Anti-Duhring where Engels lists all the hangers-on in any workers' movement. Carrol Cox
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