Demise of the De Leonist SLP?

A few more reasons why some left-wingers can possess worse morals than right-wingers:

Socialist Labor Party theorists deliberately lied about politics and history in an effort to make Marx, Engels, and Lenin appear to validate the SLP's Socialist Industrial Union program. Because SLP theorists knew they were lying, they also had to sense that their bogus theories would never pass peer review, their SIU program would never appeal to the masses, and instead would find favor only among a relative handful of deluded individuals who would dutifully assert that their bogus theories represented the pinnacle of 'socialist science', similar to the way in which some cults operate. To prevent the SIU program from being openly challenged within the party, members were not allowed to freely discuss troublesome ideas outside of their own local organizations, and were required to address all of their unresolved concerns to their National Office, thereby limiting communication possibilities and offering dissidents less freedom of speech within the SLP than allowed by the very government the party was pledged to dismantle, which has to be as unattractive and undemocratic a measure as was ever imposed on a party membership. Only the very top members had access to the information required to fully comprehend the situation within the party as a whole, leaving the members in the field with little to do but recruit fresh meat to be exploited.

Given the willingness of so many to follow just about whatever crackpot ideas get inflicted on them, only a small cadre of skilled liars loyal to whatever evil forces that propagated the lies in the first place would be required to maintain continuity of support and perpetuate the SIU far into the future. The liars, all the while projecting as innocent a state of denial as any present-day GOP spokesperson, nitpick dissenters rather than engage in the kind of careful debate that would end up exposing the fraudulent basis of the SIU. Gullible followers who long for non-political solutions to modern problems could care less that the SIU was designed - not to succeed, but rather to fail - and, by so failing, fulfill the covert bourgeois agenda of fostering divisions and preventing the degree of unity needed for successful grass roots social change.

The present-day total irrelevance of the SLP and its SIU should be no big secret to those who would rather think their way out of modern problems than simply recite formulas for social change that were fraudulently cooked up over a century ago, and grow increasingly irrelevant with the passage of time. Robots will replace all human labor before a rapidly dwindling work force decides to organize into Socialist Industrial Unions. However, it may take a long time before well-motivated activists come to understand that the secret to abolishing class distinctions is stringent regulation of business. That tactic in the class war requires the use of the state by the workers, which totally contradicts the SLP's absurd anarchist program.

My political views today (and for many decades now) might be described as a kind of modern critical 'council communism' and far removed from the 'impossibilism' of the SPGB/WSM from which I emmerged in my youth.

At that time however I must admit to being influenced in some degree by the stirling work put in by comrades Jim and Nasrim Plant for the SLP in their almost single handed production and distribution of 'The Socialist' . For all its (many) faults the basic ideas of the SLP always seemed to have the edge over its rival in the SPGB, though both maintained a rather formalistic approach towards the class struggle.

The Plants eventually, and before many others, ended up being very justifiably critical of the organisation they had given so much to and more or less ended the SLP's viseable presence in Britain.

I still have copies from a later period of the old 'Discussion Bulletin' referred to on this thread including within its covers contributions from myself and my namessake in the IWW.

It has not been updated for over a year is it still a functioning site?