MIA: History: ETOL: Documents: International Communist League/Spartacists—PRS 5
Editorial Note
Written: 2000
Source: Prometheus Research Library, Prometheus Research Series No. 5, New York, 2000
Transcription/Markup/Proofing: John Heckman.
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The documents in this bulletin have in large part been edited for stylistic consistency, particularly in punctuation, capitalization and emphasis, and to read smoothly for the modern reader. In “Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism?” we have used square brackets [] for our editorial insertions. Where material has been inserted by Shachtman, we have left his parentheses and his attribution (MS), occasionally adding the latter.
We have reproduced the quotations and translations which appear in “Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism?” as presented in the original; they often differ from the texts published in the Pioneer, Pathfinder or Monad editions. We have corrected a few dates cited by Shachtman according to the dates provided in the latter editions. The given date should enable researchers to find many of the quoted articles in those volumes.
A glossary of individuals, organizations and acronyms possibly unfamiliar to the reader is provided (See Glossary). Organizational acronyms are expanded when they first occur, both in the introduction and in the main document. Where an acronym originates in another language, the expansion in that language is given in the glossary.
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August 2000