Marxist dialectics reached interesting heights of confusion last week in the election of a deputy mayor of Colombo (pop. 355,000), capital of the island nation of Ceylon.
Colombo's city council, which elects the mayor and deputy mayor, has four major parties: United Nationalists (conservative), Communists, and two brands of Trotskyites. For deputy mayor, the Communists had to choose between a Trotskyite and an independent with Nationalist support.
They plumped for the Trotskyite and their three votes elected him.
This decision was a grave ideological error. Within hours, they were denounced by Ceylon's Communist...
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