Comment:
Dr. Who's invitation was aimed, I'm sure, at what the DB's pitch
on page 2 refers to as "the real revolutionaries of our era:
the non-market, anti-statist, libertarian socialists." Like
SRP I don't see why reformists and vanguardists would want to be
in a coalition with the above, nor would I want to be associated
with them in such a way.
But I suspect that a coalition is an unlikely outcome of a
conference now or as far into the future as the eye can see.
Supporters of the antagonistic groups that make up the DB's
readership have spent too much time working out the minor
differences that justify our groups'separate existence. If a
coalition were organized, I'm sure that every group or tendency
among us would regard it as SRP does: as a sort of holding pond
where we could go fishing for people worthy of membership in our
own group.
Another angle: The multiplicity of journals and revolutionary
literature may be a good thing. Our class can do some shopping
around before they commit themselves to a group that promulgates
the "true faith."
I'd like to see conferences organized that would enable us to get
together, present our ideas in forums, check out each other's
literature, and talk informally.
- Frank Girard
