" The Barnes group and the decline and fall of the Socialist Workers Party " ] But are there any viable self-proclaimed Marxist " vanguard party " organizations in the 21st century ?

I have forwarded this video " The Barnes group and fall of the Socialist Workers Party " by Patrick Martin to my blog ( TWO MILLION +100,000 views ) and my Facebook page ( 5000 maximum friends ) . And also to the Boston Globe , the New York Times , the Chicago Tribune , the Providence Journal , the Brown Daily Herald , the URI student publication , and the New York Post . It is a very dramatic story on the Left despite the obvious little attention it is getting even in their media . NOTE : I am aware that there is no lack of " dogmatism " in other corrupted " Marxist " groups but the SWP wins the prize for moral and intellectual decay ! This video impresses me as fundamentally honest . I always share SEP videos and World World Socialist Website articles on my blog and Facebook page . But I do so as a permanently independent democratic socialist . I wonder how much " democratic centralism " is evident in David North's Socialist Equality Party . The true story of the moral and intellectual degeneration of the SWP is a tragedy in the history of socialism . But what stands out for me - and there is little explanation for it - is the SWP's now slobbering over Zionist APARTHEID Israel as righteous " refuge " for eternally persecuted Jews- invariably ZIONIST Jews. Thank you , Patrick Martin for this illuminating lecture ! [ For what it is worth , although a non-member of the SWP , I served as presidential elector here in Rhode Island for their Peter Camejo candidate . Again in 1980 with a woman named A . Gagne . It came clear to me, after 1980, everything that Patrick Martin is talking about in the video above. But I realized the degeneration of the Jack Barnes led Socialist Workers Party had been going on for a long time. And their Young Socialist Alliance was hopelessly attached to petty bourgeois college students . My working class close friend Ron Marshall was a high school drop out factory worker. We would attend YSA lectures on the Brown University campus circa 1970 . After lecturing us on Marx's labor theory of value, a college kid YSA member would drive away in his expensive jaguar and friend Ron would return to Providence jewelry factor early the next morning . Yes, HISTORY can be very ironic indeed !