Democratic Primaries

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I used to run into this sort of thinking eons ago when I was an undergraduate. Often there would be a meeting of some campus group tackling an issue like racism or foreign policy, and there would be folks from Revolutionary Communist Youth or the Spartacist League or some such doing whatever they could to disrupt so that the whole meeting would turn into people listening to them harangue us about we weren't "true revolutionaries" and weren't tackling "the root of the problem" or whatever.

It has only recently occurred to me to tie Sanders into this, and I wonder now about how much his stint with the Socialist Workers Party informs his current ideology. In any case we dodged a bullet when Bernie got wiped in the primaries--given how heavily infiltrated the SWP was (one report I read said that fully a third of its members in the 1970s were FBI informants) there has to be material in the files on Bernie which no doubt would have surfaced during the general. Not to mention: the SWP has quite the troubled history when it comes to women's issues and sexual assault by its members.

Always glad to read your posts.

Best wishes.