Did i argue that? It's perfectly possible for personality clashes to become magnified due to the insignificant nature of the revolutionary left without that insignificance being primarily or wholly a result of those personalities.
no you didn't, and that is why I asked the question, to clarify it.
So you do accept it is possible for personality clashes to become
magnified due to the state of the class struggle. That the state and the nature of the class struggle is a major part of the discussion, if not the determinate part. Well done, I think we can agree for once. Well partially, anyway.
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The simple fact of the matter is there's no real substantive political differences here and the desperate attempts to conjure some up on both sides is laughable - it's a property fight, pure and simple.
As I say, I have paid little mind to the swp publications etc and current affairs politics in the last 10 years. I do go to Marxism, but its tourism, hobbyism, rather than a serious political interest. However,,,,,
just reading Germans few hundered word resignation explanation, made it abundantly clear to me which side I was on.
It's more than coincidental that the Smiths faction, according to Germans resignation explanation, have come to a conclusion that I was musing on here several years ago, that the "united front of a special kind" was a cancer that needed cutting out of the party. I have no doubt whatsoever that Reese and German would have kept their "united front of a special kind" as SWP stratergy....... It's not going to happen, but the only way I would ever consider getting back involved with swp is if the "united front of a special kind" was ditched and a revolutionary focus was adapted. For me, it is a substantive political difference. I have no doubt whatsoever that the German faction and the majority Smith faction also view this as a substantive political difference.
However, I will leave you all to your personality 'poltics'.