TB #2: Marxism vs. Social Patriotism

(In October 1983, When the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut was blown away, the Spartacist League/U.S. immediately called for saving the survivors. The External Tendency of the iSt labeled this as social-patriotic cowardice.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) Preface

2) “A Loss of Nerve and a Loss of Will”
–ET Bulletin No. 2, January 1984

3) Front page of Workers Vanguard No. 341, 6 November 1983

4) “Imperialist War, the Armed Forces and Revolution”
–Young Spartacus No. 113, November 1983

5) “Reuben’s Tangled Web”
–ET Bulletin No. 2, January 1984

6) “Marxism and Bloodthirstiness”
–Workers Vanguard No. 345, 6 January 1984

7) “Marxism and Social-Patriotism”
–ET Bulletin No. 3, May 1984

8) “British Sailors and American Marines”
–ET Bulletin No. 3, May 1984

9) “Black Marine: I Won’t Go!”
–Workers Vanguard No. 355, 25 May 1984

10) Exchange on Corporal Griffin
–Letter from ET to SL, 5 July 1984
–SL Reply, Workers Vanguard No. 360, 3 August 1984
–ET Rejoinder, 21 September 1984