Snippet from The Bulletin
The all-pervading cynicism is then reflected in the snide way the very fundamentals of our movement are treated. Foley refers to our struggle for Marxist philosophy as "'the Healyites' much celebrated 'method.'" In similar fashion his mentor Joseph Hansen writes: "The 'principles' to which the SLL leaders adhere should not be overlooked in seeking to understand why they follow courses that sometimes seem irrational. From the ultra-left sectarian viewpoint of the SLL, students bear an original taint - they are 'petty bourgeois,' not 'proletarian.' An influx of students would confront the SLL with the danger of having the class composition of the membership 'watered down'"!
We take questions of principle seriously and proceed at all times from them. We begin with the division between the working class and the capitalist class fighting for the construction of a working class party, made up of workers, deeply rooted in the working class. It is not a question of original taints or sins but of the objective class character of students. It is not even a matter of their recruitment to the party - which is essential - but whether the party bases itself and its perspective on the working class or the middle classes. This is a principled question.
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