Only you and I, @HeerJeet, remember the Schachtmanites. (And about three of my friends on here.)
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But I think they are the answer to many riddles.
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oh man, just when you thought things were getting weird as quickly as they can, now we're parsing varying left-wing reactions to Stalin.
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That we can even think about a Democratic nominee where one can say, "he avoided the pitfalls of the Shachtmanites" boggles the mind and tells me all I need to know about why Bernie will lose.
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Reagan appointed many former Shachtmanites to positions of power and gave Max Schachtman's onetime closest ally a presidential medal of freedom.
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A 1930's Trotskyist joke about his long-winded speeches: "Stalin thinks he can build socialism in one country, the Austro-Marxists think they can build it in one city [Vienna] and Shachtman thinks he can build it one speech..."
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"who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy" from Howl by Allen Ginsberg (the CCNY lecturer was Shachtman)
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You could do as you usually do: turn it into a tweet thread, possibly bringing Jack Kirby into the mix.
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