[unclear: Ignoring] Differences

Craw finds it convenient to imply that all [unclear: jpporters] of the SRC system are Marxists, [unclear: le] says: "....surely if to be a Marxist is [unclear: nything], it is to be anti-dogmatic." He [unclear: en] says: "For instance...Lisa Sacksen [unclear: laimed] inaccurately..."; and "Likewise [unclear: vndrew] Beach...sees this institution..."; [unclear: nd] finally, "whilst Simon Terry..goes as [unclear: ir] as claiming...". Now these three people [unclear: II] hold (as far as I know) rather different [unclear: iews] to each other.

Later in the article, Craw uses the same [unclear: ick] of lumping in together everyone who olds a different view to his own. He says: SRC is used to ratify decisions that the [unclear: istablishment'] want ratified. Nowhere was [unclear: lis] more apparent than in the recent [unclear: ebacle] at SRC concerning the Massof residency... the Executive and their [unclear: jpporters] dragged out that SRC, on an [unclear: lready] defeated motion, for 1½ hours and [unclear: en] bogged down next week's SRC with [unclear: le] same issue for at least an hour!"

Even the most cursory investigation of [unclear: it] facts would have shown him that at the [unclear: econd] SRC the main debate occured over [unclear: upport] for the Election Committee's [unclear: commendation]. The principles in that [unclear: ebate] were the Chairperson of the Election [unclear: ommittee] on one side versus the mover of [unclear: ne] previous week's successful motion on [unclear: ne] other, with exec members split on the [unclear: sue]. Yet all these people are supposed to [unclear: e] Marxists operating as a bloc!

What Craw is doing is engaging in a [unclear: libtle] form of red-baiting. Rather than [unclear: articipate] in the debates on the issue of [unclear: iterim] President, he prefers to try to call [unclear: II] the people he doesn't like politically, [unclear: larxists], and bad ones at that, thereby [unclear: rying] to discredit what they say.

He may recognise that a lot of people he [unclear: riticises] are not Marxists at all, but by not [unclear: dmitting] it, he may hope to sow dissention [unclear: n] the ranks. The Government does the [unclear: ame] with unions who oppose it. By falsely [unclear: mplying] that communists have nobody's [unclear: nterests] but their own at heart, and that [unclear: they] are manipulating all those who line up [unclear: ith] them on a particular issue, the aim is to [unclear: liscredit] the communists and the issue [unclear: teself].

It is worth remembering that if one is [unclear: rying] to assess what Marxism and Marxists [unclear: xe] all about, one shouldn't fall into the rap of considering the actions of everyone [unclear: n] the liberal-left. It is also worth [unclear: emembering] that Marxists, as the quotes [unclear: hosen] by Craw last week show well, do [unclear: ictually] try to take a sensible outlook on [unclear: hings].