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  Ernest Mandel -- degeneration of a former Trotskyist
The differences between the tactic of the "French turn" of the 1930's and the Pabloite strategy of "integration in mass movements" consists in the following.
The third, and most important distinction was that the "French turn" was a temporary tactic, subordinated to the strategy of conquering the advanced masses to the banner of Trotskyism.
Pabloite world view, on the other hand, assigned a progressive role to Stalinism or petty bourgeois nationalism.
www.mit.edu /people/fjk/essays/mandel.html   (1213 words)

  
 Castroism and the Politics of Petty-Bourgeois Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Pabloites presented -- and some of them still present -- Castroism as a new road to socialism, as confirmation that the socialist revolution could be carried out, and a workers' state established, without the conscious participation of the working class.
This move was hailed by the Pabloites, and the petty-bourgeois left in general, as a further indication of the revolution's radicalization and its socialist character.
The Pabloites not only failed to prepare the working class for these events, they helped facilitate them by insisting that the revolution could be carried out by forces other than the working class and endorsing the Castroite perspective of armed actions by isolated guerrilla bands.
dev.wsws.org /exhibits/castro   (10792 words)

  
 Spartacist: In Defense of a Revolutionary Perspective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On the tactical level the Pabloites generalized their deep entrist perspective to include the social democratic and centrist parties in Europe and the national bourgeois formations in the colonial areas.
The policy of the Pabloites in Britain is a reflection of their abandonment of a revolutionary world perspective: their seeing in others the forces with revolutionary potential.
The inability of the Pabloites to play an independent role in these crucial events was simply an expression of a central political outlook which places little emphasis on the revolutionary role of our movement.
www.marxists.org.uk /history/etol/document/ibt/ibt07.htm   (7504 words)

  
 The Crisis of the Fourth International and the Tasks of Consistent Trotskyists
Pabloite revisionism, which emerged at the end of 1950 and triumphed at the Third World Congress in 1951, represented an opportunist deviation of a centrist type.
The role of the revolutionary instrument was, in effect, assigned to the ruling bureaucracy of the USSR and the Stalinist parties, driven to assume this role by the revolutionary pressure of the masses and confrontation with imperialism and the "inevitable" formation and possible triumph of internal centrist tendencies.
This Pabloite policy led the USFI to adapt itself politically, programmatically and organizationally to various centrist and left-reformist forces.
home.igc.org /~itofi/fti/fti_meth.html   (5653 words)

  
 International Committee of the Fourth International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cannon went on to explain that, in his view, what he described as Pabloite Revisionism was the result of a lack of confidence in the revolutionary capabilities of the working class and an impressionistic overly positive assessment of the strength and prospects of Stalinism.
Pablo was at this time, it should be noted, talking of "centuries of deformed workers states" as a part of his formulation of what was called the war-revolution thesis.
Despite their objections to Pabloite liquidationism some of the sections of the ICFI actually operated as entrist organisations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Fourth_International   (1974 words)

  
 International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)
The group originated at the Revolutionary Tendency in the American Socialist Workers Party, formed in 1961, seeing themselves as loyal to the International Committee of the Fourth International while the SWP were keen to reunify with the Pabloite International Secretariat of the Fourth International.
They are also highly critical of groups associated with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International which they characterize as Pabloite.
The International Bolshevik Tendency, which formed in 1985 out of members who had variously quit and been expelled, claims that since they left the group it has engaged in very little trade union activity.
pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/i/in/international_communist_league__fourth_internationalist_.html   (641 words)

  
 WSWS International Editorial Board meeting The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class Part ...
The Pabloites have already carried out a similar move in Brazil where one of their members is a minister in the government of President Ignazio “Lula” da Silva.
The fact that representatives of the French bourgeoisie are discussing the inclusion of the Pabloites in government is an expression of the depth of the political crisis.
Once again, it is the pseudo-Trotskyists and Pabloites who are seeking to depict the Left Party in the rosiest of colours and breathe new life into what is a very conservative organization.
www.wsws.org /articles/2006/mar2006/uli3-m15.shtml   (2145 words)

  
 SWP (US): A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World (1953) - IBT
If the Renault workers were to believe the Pabloites, all that the perfidious French Stalinist bureaucrats were guilty of was a trace of syndicalism instead of a deliberate betrayal of the biggest general strike in the history of France.
One of the principal aims of the Pabloite leaflet is to denounce French Trotskyists who conducted themselves in the Renault plant during the strike as genuine revolutionists.
It should be noted that the Pabloite denunciation of these comrades before the Stalinists follows the verdict of a workers’ tribunal acquitting the Trotskyists in the Renault plant of slanders leveled at them by the Stalinists.
marxists.anu.edu.au /history/etol/document/swp-us/doc01.htm   (4707 words)

  
 Was Trotsky a Pabloite?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Another defense cited by the Pabloites for their Trotskyist credentials concerns the events of 1939, when the Russian Army seized portions of Poland in conjunction with the Germans and incorporated the territory into the Soviet Union.
It is argued by some of the Pabloites that the Chinese Communist Party was itself the centralizing, proletarian force that enabled the peasant-based armies to triumph over Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese bourgeoisie in the forties.
The Pabloites in the leadership of the rapidly degenerating Fourth International then concluded that the Mao government represented not a workers' state but only a "workers' and peasants' government" in transition to a workers' state.
www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/Trotsky.html   (2659 words)

  
 Theses on the crisi of the Fourth International and the tasks of consistent trotskysts
The reunification achieved in 1963 between the Pabloite International Secretariat and a wing of the International Committee led by the SWP/US, was the product of capitulation by the SWP to Pabloism, originating in the revisionist SWP's own ongoing shift to the right.
In reality, the USFI continues the old Pabloite project of liquidating the Trotskyist movement into a confused centrist amalgam or even left reformism.
Because of this, the Grant faction was not directly involved in the split of the Fourth International in 1953.
www.progettocomunista.it /98IIConferenzaITOCrisisIVInt.htm   (7645 words)

  
 The historical record of Pabloite opportunism An exchange with a supporter of the French LCR
Since that time the Pabloite tendency has participated in one betrayal after another of the interests of the international working class.
Pabloite leader Livio Maitan (Italy) recently referred to these betrayals euphemistically as “the backsliding” (“les derives”) during his opening speech to the recent 15th Congress of the United Secretariat.
This is the task being undertaken by the ICFI, while the Pabloites work to spread the illusion that the interests of the working class can be defended within the confines of the capitalist system and its national and international institutions.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/apr2004/lcr-a15_prn.shtml   (1962 words)

  
 Letter from James P. Cannon to Farrell Dobbs, April 24, 1954
I received your letters of April 20 and 21 with the enclosed material from Ceylon and the Pabloite IS. It is quite clear now that relations between the Trotskyists and the Pabloites are entering a new and final stage.
The Pabloite IS circular of April 9 flatly rejects the postponement.
The same April 9 session of the Pabloite IS, which issued this infamous declaration, made the decision to formalize the split with the Trotskyists who remain faithful to the program of revolutionary internationalism.
www.marxists.org /archive/cannon/works/1954/todobbs424.htm   (1038 words)

  
 International women's day
In the areas of theoretical analysis, programmatic assessment, political perspective and tactics, this epigone tradition has thoroughly revised the work of Trotsky and his great predecessors.
In both an opportunist and a sectarian fashion, the “Pabloite” and “anti-Pabloite” wings of degenerate “Trotskyism” have proved, repeatedly, that they are incapable of rediscovering and re-asserting the central tenets of the Leninist and Trotskyist programme with regard to reformism.
From the late 1940s to the late 1960s both the International Committee and the International Secretariat factions of the “Fourth International” pursued a grossly adaptationist and conciliationist attitude towards social democracy.
www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/reformismintro.html   (932 words)

  
 WSWS International Editorial Board meeting Report on Latin American perspectives Part Two
And, just as the Pabloite revisionists adapted themselves to Peronism and similar movements in the 1950s and to guerrillaism in the 1960s and ‘70s, so today, the Pabloite groups are building up movements such as that of Chavez as a new road to socialism.
Among the Pabloite revisionists, who played such a crucial role in betraying the revolutionary developments in Latin America in the 1970s, there is a definite political continuity with the positions of that period, when they embraced left nationalist movements, beginning with Peronism and the MNR in Bolivia, and later Castroism and guerrillaism.
The Pabloites confront an unpleasant fact: Their leading member in Brazil—Miguel Rossetto—is playing precisely such a role as an “insurance policy” and “hostage” of the Lula government’s right-wing policies by continuing to serve as its minister of agrarian reform.
www.wsws.org /articles/2006/mar2006/van2-m20.shtml   (2448 words)

  
 Gerry Healy - Chapter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is necessary, however, to demolish the myth that Healy’s successful intervention in the CPGB was made possible ‘on the basis of the 1953 split’ in the Fourth International, or by ‘the clarification which had been achieved through the struggle against Pabloite revisionism’.
The split between the IS and its American supporters, followed by the effective dissolution of the Cochran-Clarke group as a rival political organisation, had in any case removed ‘Pabloism’ as a threat in the USA.
Not only did Hunter fail to prove this assertion, but his legitimate criticisms of the IS document, with its emphasis on the role a ‘revolutionary’ wing of the Stalinist bureaucracy would play in the political revolution, were undermined by his misrepresentations of Mandel’s arguments.
www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Chap4.html   (4133 words)

  
 Letter from Farrell Dobbs to G. Healy, October 25, 1953
We think the best service we can render the international movement is to cut through the whole web of Pabloite intrigue with an open challenge of their revisionist-liquidationist line.
The Pabloites have already shown by their actions in France and their movements and threats against you in Britain that they will not permit a democratic Congress.
The most decisive factor about the debate was the eagerness with which our rank and file responded to the signal that we are opening war on Pabloite revisionism and liquidationism in the world movement.
www.ucc.ie /acad/socstud/tmp_store/mia_2/Library/history/etol/document/slaughter/slaug14d.htm   (1445 words)

  
 Gerry Healy - Chapter 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This put forward the perspective that with the outbreak of another world war, which was held to be both imminent and inevitable, the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinist parties outside the USSR could be transformed.
The not exactly world-historic issue around which the Healyites and Pabloites waged their initial public fight was Lawrence’s proposal to launch a petition demanding that the Tory government resign.
The one innovation in Healy’s document was his argument that the ‘Pabloites’ underestimated capitalist-restorationist tendencies among the Stalinist bureaucracy.
www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Chap3.html   (6415 words)

  
 [Infoshop News] fyi - [WSWS] replies to a member of the International Socialist Organization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
They insisted on the necessity of the political independence of the working class and its international unification, against the revisionist tendency within the Fourth International, led by Michel Pablo and Ernest Mandel, which sought to subordinate the workers movement to the Moscow bureaucracy or the bourgeois leaderships of the anti-colonial struggle.
The result was that the Pabloite organizations played a critical role in the betrayal of a wave of revolutionary struggles that erupted internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.
While the Pabloites saw the Stalinist bureaucracy playing a revolutionary role, predicting that it would establish =B3centuries of deformed workers states,=B2 the state capitalists took the seemingly opposite position, proclaiming the Soviet Union a new form of class society and the bureaucrac= y a new ruling class.
flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2002-April/000918.html   (2070 words)

  
 Was an antiwar panel censored at the Socialist Scholars Conference?
They have an informative webpage at http://www.iacenter.org and have published an indispensable book titled "Nato in the Balkans," with articles by Ilyich and Lituchy, as well as Sean Gervasi, Michel Chossudovsky and the old firebrand himself, Sam Marcy, who died only two years ago.
It is by no means an accident that a "Pabloite" group would have the right class instincts on such questions.
In the 1950s, this faction of the Fourth International was much less prone to Stalinophobia than their opponents and understood that defense of "democracy" emanating from Washington, DC had to be taken with a huge grain of salt.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/iac_panel.htm   (1330 words)

  
 Without Apparent Utility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Of the seven, two are anarchists, one is a Pabloite Trotskyist, three are Marxist-Leninists, and one is a reporter.
The reporter has been interviewing Nick and Lenny (maybe their real names, maybe not), the anarchists, who are manufacturing machine-guns for distribution to the disaffected.
The reporter has been bugging a conference between the Pabloite and one of the anarchists.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001972/Hougan/Hougan10/Hougan10.html   (3822 words)

  
 Toward Rebirth of the Fourth International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The post-World War II order was marked by the emergence of bureaucratically deformed workers states in most of the areas of East Europe under Soviet occupation and (as a result of Stalinist-led peasant-guerrilla insurgencies) in Yugoslavia, China, North Korea and North Vietnam.
Under the influence of the relative stabilization of capitalism in the industrial states of the West and of the partial success of petit-bourgeois movements in overthrowing imperialist rule in some of the backward countries, the revisionist tendency within the Trotskyist movement developed an orientation away from the proletariat and toward the petit-bourgeois leaderships.
The Fourth International will not be reborn through adaptation to Pabloite revisionism: only by political and theoretical struggle against all forms of centrism can the world party of socialist revolution finally be established.
www.icl-fi.org /english/esp/58/rebirth.html   (4337 words)

  
 Who are the International Bolshevik Tendency?
The International was definitively politically destroyed by Pabloite revisionism in the early 1950's.
We are not neutral in the 1951-53 split--we side with the International Committee (IC) against the Pabloite International Secretariat (IS).
The political collapse of the SWP as a revolutionary organization, signalled by its uncritical enthusing over Castroism in the early 1960's, and culminating in its defection to the Pabloites in 1963, was therefore an enormous blow to world Trotskyism.
www.bolshevik.org /directory.html   (565 words)

  
 Annotated Life: London Bombings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As for the firm socialist history of the Labour Party, cheesy rose emblem notwithstanding, look into the attempt by Michael Banda and Cliff Slaughter of the British Workers Revolutionary Party to dissolve the International Committee by falsifying the history of Cold War-era Trotskists fighting against the spread of Stalinism.
I still don't think this is fair, those who join an established party and work within the system are not necessarily Pabloites.
The Labour party has been severely compromised, but there are still many members with socialist principles, especially the supporters and trade union members.
annotatedlife.blogspot.com /2005/07/london-bombings.html   (540 words)

  
 The Chinese Experience With Pabloite Revisionism And Bureaucratism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
If I insisted on having it published, I myself was to be responsible for any step taken concerning it.
It was quite a surprise for me to see how greatly Germain’s attitude had changed from his previous “moderate” and conciliatory one toward me. This time it was Pabloite through and through.
It is least of all my intention to defend myself.
www.marxists.org /archive/peng/1953/dec/30.htm   (6131 words)

  
 Arianna Online Forums - View Single Post - The Algerian War - How French Imperialism Was Defeated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Likewise, the Pabloites [the followers of the pseudo-Trotskyist Michel Pablo, whose revisionism destroyed the Fourth International by the early 1950s and is represented today by the United Secretariat (USec)] wrote at the time that the war “is ending with a ‘compromise peace’ that reflects the relationship of forces on the military terrain”(Quatrième Internationale, April 1962).
This document summarizes the results of research I did in tracing the origins of that myth and the lies and distortions used by the bourgeoisie and its ideologues to further it.
When an Algerian Pabloite group was set up in the mid 1970s, its first publication was a pamphlet retailing the bourgeoisie’s myths—and adding some of their own.
www.ariannaonline.com /forums/showpost.php?p=10826&postcount=1   (4145 words)

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