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...Trotskyism, whose heresiarch is Leon Trotsky, now an exile in Mexico. Trotsky's heretical sect styles itself the Fourth International (5,000 communicants). Until last week its U. S. congregation was the Socialist Workers Party (membership: 2,000), of which hardbitten James Patrick Cannon and full-lipped Max Schachtman were co-pastors...
...declared that the Stalinists had thus blasphemed against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper and the other a sprinkler. Wroth, Trotsky called Schachtman "the floating kidney of the working class...
...Private Secretary van Heijenoort took plane to Mexico City. Already there was the first pilgrimage of U. S. Reds to the feet of the Great Exile. None has a name which makes news in the U. S. Press but in zeal and enthusiasm they were tops,* particularly one Max Schachtman who aspires to write the definitive biography of the Master...
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