International Viewpoint
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SOCIALIST ACTION JANUARY 1992 9 again and do the same thing. And it kept doing this over and over again until I cut the rope, and then it just kept slowly walking away into the distance in a straight line.
Now, we see political groups acting like that possum quite often. The Workers World Party (WWP), for example, deserves the credit for calling the very first demonstration against the Vietnam War. But it was an explicitly left-wing demonstration called under explicitly anti-imperialist slogans. A few hundred left-wingers showed up, and for that period—1963—that was rather impressive.
Stalin and Lysenko
While it is necessary to guard against falling into the sterility of formalism, it is also necessary to beware of those who abuse the dialectical method. Since dialectical logic can comprehend contradiction, it lends itself to being misused as a phony method for turning an argument inside out.
After all, Marxist ideology, or any kind of ideology, can be used in two different ways. Lenin and the Bolshevik Party used Marxist ideology as a guide-as a means of trying to figure out what to do next at A biweekly magazine published under the auspices of the Fourth International One year subscription:
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