The following post was written by Shaun Richman, and was posted on his blog entitled “Why did Shaun Richman Create this Blog?” The entry is called “This is a Shamelessly Factional Button,” and lays out a brief history of factional buttons in the Socialist Party at the turn of the Century.
This Is a Shamelessly Factional Button
[by Shaun Richman. Republished with Permission]
December 7th, 2007
Shannon Hammock just mailed me a parcel of the past: silly factional buttons from the Socialist Party’s 2001 national convention. It was the first time in many years that an organized caucus was formed to compete for seats on the party’s national committee. Although they called themselves “the Issues Caucus,†their focus seemed to be on personalities. They lumped a bunch of comrades with wildly different politics that didn’t necessarily even like each other into a cabal, the “us vs. them†that they had to “get.†Read the rest of this entry »
