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Ex-Boston Local Center/OCIC Members

The OCIC’s Phoney Campaign: Ultra-“Leftism” in Command Once Again

Written: March 1981.
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul Saba
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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The “Left” Idealism of the Present Campaign
The line on the single view
The line on “squaring with your view”–the exaggeration of stereotypes
The fundamental separation of theory & practices
The effects of the campaign
Ghettoization
Political Roots of the “left” idealism

Left Methods of Struggle–Sectarianism & Dogmatism

The Leadership’s Line on Accommodation
Liquidation of political differences in the BLC
The left sectarianism underlying the line on accommodation
White chauvinism and petty bourgeois chauvinism in the line

The Line on Personal Relationships
Line is idealist
LOPR has been used in opportunist fashion
There is no official line

Conclusion

Appendix I: Sum-up of the Last BLC Meeting (3/1/81)

Appendix II: Some comments on the LSC Sum-up, “White Chauvinist Errors Towards Comrade Walker and Comrade Walker’s Capitulation”

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