1. There's an interesting echo of Trotyskyism in this @BillKristol editorial "Neither Clinton Nor Trump" http://www.weeklystandard.com/neither-clinton-nor-trump/article/2002274 …
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2. "Neither Clinton Nor Trump" echoes, deliberately I think, the Shachtmanite slogan "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
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3. I say deliberately because Kristol's parents had been Shachtmanites in the 1940s, so he almost certainly knows the phrase.
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4. Shachtman's full slogan was: "Neither Washington nor Moscow but the Third Camp of Independent Socialism!"
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5. The problem (and perhaps the glory) of Third Camp socialism is its a politics of total opposition, removed from actual centers of power.
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@HeerJeet It is response to Moscow trials & executions, Hitler-Stalin Pact & Trotsky assassination. Ortho Trots pretend nothing has changed.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet Shachtmanites recognize that Stalinism is not deformed, but malignant -- a totalitarian state of a new type.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@LeoECasey Right -- that was root of his break with James Cannon & Trotsky.
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