xlcr4life
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Post Number: 188
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 65.34.144.5
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 9:32 pm: | 
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The WABAC machine is your friend yutes and the cult's worst nightmare because we can post and find so many things for people to read and figure out for themselves. Evidently, quite a few LYM are just doing that as the THREE DECADE LCers are being sent around the country to try to get the yutes really excited about card table shrines and inhaling carcinogens daily .
There are a few dozen WABAC machines working around the globe by people who know what to look for. This is not done around the clock as everyone has families, hobbies and things to get done.
For all of the yutes who think that they are special and unique, we have a surprise for you. This has all been done before by Lyn and you just happen to be the latest set of yutes who have been hijacked out of college. I thought this process began with the SDS days by Lyn, but it seems to go back even further when Lyn developed a business model which may have begun in 1965 in the SWP.
An email came in a few days ago and I thought it was fan mail from some flounder until I read it closely
As best as I can put this together, Lyn was in the SWP and writing endless reports which no one read or cared about. In the SWP was a guy named Wohlforth who has some brilliant quotes about Lyn which are right on the money.
Wohlworth had a splinter groupcalled the American Committee for the Fourth International or ACFI. ACFI published the "Bulletin for Intl Socialism" or BIS. BIS
The person(s) who were doing some research seem to be very familiar with Lyn and were shocked when they found a copy of the October 4, 1965 (Vol2 # 15) on the shelves at a major US University and were intrigued when they began to read it.
Now we can read one of the numerous WABAC machine generated fun.
Here is some of the details known by the people who have uncovered this document. Thee quotes are from the researchers who know a lot more than I know about this.
"Wohlforth set up the ACFI after his group was
expelled from the SWP in the early 1960s. It later
became the Workers League. Larouche became a supporter of
the group and after he quit the SWP he briefly became
a member before leaving it first to join the
Sparticist League for a few months and then to form
his own group which became the Labor Committee."
"The Wohlforth ACFI group published the Bulletin. Larouche
wrote for it while still a member of the SWP which is
why he wrote anonymously. He then officially joined
the group after his resignation from the SWP."
"On October 4, 1965, the Bulletin (Vol. 2, No. 15)
published part II of "Special Report on SWP Convention
: How Trotsky's 'Heirs' Celebrated the 25th
Anniversary of His Death." In it the author, almost
certainly LaRouche, devoted a section to the role of
"youth" in the party. The "youth" were from the Young
Socialist Alliance (YSA), the SWP version of the LYM.
The SWP leadership at the time was headed by Farrell
Dobbs with support from Tom Kerry."
Whoa, what I thought was some junk email is from some people who have been reading factnet and did a double take when they found out Lyn was still alive and up to his old tricks.
So what we have is a document where the researchers are pretty well convinced that Lyn Marcus wrote an article about how to use Trotsky yutes in a small org.
(Message edited by xlcr4life on August 14, 2007)
xlcr4life
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Username: xlcr4life
Post Number: 189
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 65.34.144.5
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 9:34 pm: |
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Here are exerpts sent to me with their comments.
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"The conservativism of the Dobbs-Kerry tendency had an
obvious contradiction. Old cadre members were
gradually lost by attrition. Even to continue to
pursue the course of organizational conservativism,
the Dobbs-Kerry group required "new blood" for the
party to fill the emptying chairs in the branches and
-- more important to any trade union bureaucrat -- to
reduce the danger of red ink in the party's financial
accounts. Even the most conservative organization can
not exist unless it reproduces itself."
[In other words: ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS]
LaRouche then continues a bit later on:
"But faced with the contradiction of a declining old
cadre membership, Dobbs-Kerry sublimated their
anti-youth prejudices and forced themselves to accept
and exploit the youth movement. The attrition in the
old SWP cadre left them no other choice."
LaRouche next observes:
"The first instinct of the leadership was to turn thi s
youth into a political labor contingent, best fit to
run itself ragged in door-to-door subscription
campaigns, collect petition signatures, wear itself to
exhaustion in meaningless, WPA [Workers Project
Administration], "Jimmy Higgins" work ["Jimmy Higgins"
was a name for a type of slavish cadre willing to do
anything, the more menial the better, for the party],
and begin to refill the empty coffers of the SWP
treasury."
[To repeat: ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS]
Next LaRouche writes:
" "Activism" and not political qualifications became the
standard of youth leadership and membership. The
perpetual exhaustion of youth driven to superactivism
was easily turned into bitter hostility against
"older" comrades who could not maintain the pace and
still maintain their responsibilities to their jobs
and families."
{SOUND FAMILIAR?}
We continue to quote:
"As the numbers of these superactivism-dragooned youth increased in the party's ranks, they became the social layer whose frenzy was the tool for effecting the expulsion of political minorities, attacking all critics of the regime, the instrument which destroyed the last vestige of democratic centralism in the SWP."
["SUPERACTIVISM-DRAGOONED YOUTH'/"ATTACKING ALL
CRITICS OF THE REGIME" -- Plus a change . . .]
We continue to quote:
"But this youth proved to be a two-edged sword. The
rage of the party youth against political minorities
was extended to "older comrades" in general. As these
youth came, in the past two years, to outnumber the
older comrades in many branches, they began to make
menacing gestures towards sections of the Dobbs-Kerry
combination itself. As Kerry repeated at this
convention, the youth have "built a fire under me" and
Kerry does not intend to lose his position, he
announced, explaining the need for more and more
expulsions and active suppression of internal
political life."
xlcr4life
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Username: xlcr4life
Post Number: 190
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 65.34.144.5
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 9:38 pm: |
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LaRouche then inserts a subtitle "Problems of Internal
Party Life" before he continues:
"As the SWP's equivalent of a trade union bureaucracy,
Dobbs-Kerry face not only the insurgency of the youth,
but also the continuing problem of party finances and
the problem of the uneasy coalition of the
"squirearchy" and youth on which the regime itself
rests. Dobbs needs as much of the older cadre as he
can hold in order to keep the party youth in check. He
must impose a lockstep discipline upon the youth to
prevent it from throwing up political factions which
could overthrow the Dobbs-Kerry regime itself in the
relatively near future. He needs to keep the youth as
a club over the "old cadre" members of the "Cannon
school" [Jame Cannon] who are not entirely happy with
the present state and course of internal affairs."
[So the youth are really a "club" to be used against
disgruntled old cadre. Curiouser and curiouser.]
LaRouche continues:
"He [Dobbs] wants to get rid of the political
minorities and yet he needs to have a political
minority through which to divert the rage of the youth
from his own old cadre supporters. At the same time,& lt; B R>youth recruits to the party in the past two years have just balanced off the membership losses from
expulsion, resignation and other inevitable forms of
attrition. Minorities, in total, still represent about
one-quarter of the total membership and, consequently,
a significant part of Dobbs' all-important budget.
Under these circumstances, Dobbs is compelled to
resort to the most awkward organizational maneuvers in
his efforts to contain this mass of explosive
interrelated problems."
There it is. We have "an all-important budget," a need
to "divert the rage of the youth" by using the "most
awkward organizational maneuvers" to play the youth
off against the dissident older factional members in
order to "contain this mass of explosive interrelated
problems" so the leadership can continue to generate
money.
Sound familiar?
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