What I think is a more general problem is their parasitic relationship to the masses. It isn’t exclusive to the revisionists but I think it’s the most pronounced with them. These groups are uniformly small, rarely generate any activity of their own, and there’s an inclination towards doing as little real work as humanly possible. When they’re operating effectively, organizers from a local will fan out into any number of demonstrations or coalitions to recruit and, essentially, outsource the work of a day-to-day struggle. Whereas the Trotskyites tend to set up cheap front organizations to siphon relatively new activists into their reading groups, the Marcyites seep into existing organizations and coalitions to bring in more seasoned ones. In the PSL, the process of converting other local groups into nationally-directed mass organizations is even codified in their constitution.
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