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Feb 2024
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One Plus One Is Three: The Poverty of "T...

Chris, Kevin, Jason, & Ben
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As recovering Third Campists ourselves, we sit down to discuss the lingering problems that the third camp of Trotskyism has always had and how they are much dumber in their contemporary incarnation. Resignation from the Fourth International - Natalia Sedova Trotsky https://www.marxists.org/archive/sedova-natalia/1951/05/09.htm Against Campism, for Intern ... Show More
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