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...Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims," wrote Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Yet once again, Michael T. Anderson '83, a self-proclaimed Marxist, attacks the Spartacist League for being too open with then politics, and for upsetting "the delicate balance" which keeps his radical-chic image intact...
...letter, Anderson criticizes the Spartacists for being Stalinist--a gross lie--and then becomes an apologist for the real Stalinists, the Communist Party USA. In fact, it is Anderson's own popular-front politics ("Just tell them what they want to hear") that are Stalinist, not to mention dangerous for all the struggles of the oppressed. If he didn't seem so paranoid that the Spartacist League "has got to be some right-wing front," perhaps he would be interested in discussing more important political differences...
...about joining a "radical rock & roll club" he was planning. Meanwhile, the Democratic Socialists of America tell us that "a modern train system by the year 2000" will be the first step towards socialism. That's a long time to wait in cheese lines, guys, On the other hand, Spartacist politics are based upon the objective interests of the working class, an analytical understanding of current events, and a Trotskyist program for social change. Their good advice is the same advice that Lenin gave to young communists in his day: "Learn!" Tom Cowperthwaite...
...recent meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America, a member of that organization asked me if it wasn't true that the Spartacist League receives all its money from the FBI. In his May 6 letter to the Crimson, "campus radical" Michael Anderson makes a similar "argument...
...time to stop the charade. The Spartacists are not real leftists; their organization has got to be some kind of right-wing front to discredit the left. This does not mean that every Spart is an agent, but it does mean that every Spartacist action is directed by someone with no interest in building the workers' movement...