Absurd | IMGpapers 1980

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The main argument in the pamphlet marks an adof DULLS ULI Militant's initial position. Up until now Militant has argued that nothing workers can do will make Snatcher fleet. Now the argument is advanced that tor the fleet to be withdrawn 'a general strike would be required and not only general strike, but also an insurrection'. Grant then points that a general strike leading to an insurrection 1s not Ull at ine present time in Britain. Therefore, he concludes, for he wore deer 'meaningless' and 'absurd' This grotesque form of argumentation nas Its famous forebears. The Second was. before World War I, committed to an international general strike in the event war. When war vas declared in these betrayers declared that beause anne agenda then they should not oppose the Comrade Grant knows this history as well as the rest of us..

The breakthrough made by Lenin and then the life-work of Leon Trotsky - to whose politics Militant claims to be loyal - was to oppose the erection of such a brick wall between minimum ana maxımum demands: against reducing socialist policies to rhetoric whose only purpose was to cover support for their own TuCEs.

Let's look how this Socialist Challenge 18 June 1982