VLVL Rex Snuvvle (1)

[jbor]

There's lots of stuff on the web about Pabloist liquidationism and the
resulting breakdown of the Fourth International in 1951-3:

[...] As the anti-Soviet Cold War escalated, a revisionist current appeared
as FI secretary Michel Pablo argued that Stalinism, under pressure from
imperialism, could approximate revolutionary policies. Pabloist
liquidationism, which denied the need for a Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard,
led to the destruction of the Fourth International in 1951-53. 

The fight against revisionism has been a constant in the Marxist movement,
as the pressures of bourgeois society weigh on the vanguard. Despairing of
the revolutionary capacity of the proletariat, the Pabloists initially
chased after Tito and the European CPs in the late 1940s and '50s. Under
Ernest Mandel, these opportunists who falsely claimed to be Trotskyists
constantly shifted their enthusiasms, from Castro and Mao in the '60s to the
Sandinistas, Polish Solidarnosc and Cold War Social Democracy in the '80s.
Due to the ravages caused by Pabloism, Trotskyists today must fight to
reforge the Fourth International as a Leninist, democratic-centralist world
party of socialist revolution. [...]

http://www.internationalist.org/lfideclaration.html

In Defense of the Trotskyist Program
 
Introduction 

This pamphlet contains three documents. The first is "For Trotskyism!," the
programmatic declaration of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT). This document
(reprinted from 1917 No. 3, Spring 1987) restates the basic programmatic
positions upon which the Fourth International was founded, while also
addressing many of the questions which distinguish genuine Trotskyists from
centrist pretenders in the international workers movement today. [...]

http://www.bolshevik.org/TB/tb3.html

It's obvious that the words "Leninist" and "Bolshevik" crop up consistently
to name and/or identify factions in both Pabloist and anti-Pabloist Fourth
International movements, so I'm not quite sure what the quibble on that
point is. 

(cont.)