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Red_Jacobin
3rd January 2016, 18:47
Who are the most important thinkers/ideologues of Orthodox Trotskyism (non-third-camp and non-cliffite), alongside Trotsky and James P. Canon?

VivalaCuarta
3rd January 2016, 23:37
I'm not sure if he would have considered himself an "orthodox Trotskyist," but Richard S. Fraser made a great contribution to the theoretical arsenal of what I would consider to be "orthodox," for lack of a better term, with his work on the nature of black oppression in the U.S.

I have a lot of respect for what Jim Robertson and his co-thinkers built, too bad that most of them finally cracked under the pressure of U.S. imperialist post-cold-war triumphalism in 1996, but the Internationalist Group carries on their program and is building on it. Can't say the same for the scabs and sociopaths who ended up in the "Bolshevik" tendency.

Red_Jacobin
4th January 2016, 03:55
I'm not sure if he would have considered himself an "orthodox Trotskyist," but Richard S. Fraser made a great contribution to the theoretical arsenal of what I would consider to be "orthodox," for lack of a better term, with his work on the nature of black oppression in the U.S.

I have a lot of respect for what Jim Robertson and his co-thinkers built, too bad that most of them finally cracked under the pressure of U.S. imperialist post-cold-war triumphalism in 1996, but the Internationalist Group carries on their program and is building on it. Can't say the same for the scabs and sociopaths who ended up in the "Bolshevik" tendency.

I really like what I've read thus far on the ideas of Fraser, thanks for bringing him up!