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All sense of the latent contradiction between such commitments as Clause IV and social democracy is missing.
We are left with the statement 'marxists work in the Labour Party and defend Clause IV only in order to produce better conditions for denouncing reformism • So we work in a campaign to defend something we don't agree with in order to denounce those who honestly defend it.
The real catch comes with the statement that we work in the Labour Party 'to produce better conditions to denounce reformism'.
Just on the right side of ambiguity to avoid the accusation of ultra-leftism this begs the big question. What would be the "best' outcome of the fight over Clause IV in order for us to be able to denounce reformism?
All the ultra-lefts are hoping Blair wins (despite having to pay lip service to the campaign) so that it becomes all the easier to denounce and exposé reformism. If only politics was so easy.
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