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67. They were also intensely sexist.

At one point the SWP lost many of its women members who were tired of dealing with its macho "revolutionary" mind set.

They also, in the late eighties, launched a major campaign to defend one of its white members who had been convicted of raping a fifteen year old black girl. The campaign used all the traditional sexist tropes about rape--for instance, that women and girls often lie about rape. As if convicting a white college educated man of raping a working class black girl is ever easy.

The Spartacist League used to show up on campus when I was an undergrad, and I had much the same reaction as you. Their rhetoric and literature were pretty much a caricature of Marxist-Leninist gibberish.