On Bill Logan's "Sociopathy"

As I have stated before there is a psychopath checklist it is the following:

1) Glib and Superficial
2) Egocentric and Grandiose
3) Lack of Empathy
4) Deceitful and Manipulative
5) Shallow Emotions
6) Impulsive
7) Poor Behaviour Controls
8) Need for Excitement
9) Lack of Responsibility
10) Early Behaviour Problems
11) Adult Anti-Social Behaviour
12) Lack of Remorse or Guilt

This check-list was devised by Dr. Robert Hare a leading world authority on psychopaths he also points out that psychopaths have NONE of the hallmarks of mental illness.

Jim Robertson, head of the International Communist League (ICL), calls Bill Logan a sociopath (psychopath and sociopath are synonymous). He describes a sociopath as someone who is "mentally insane who act it out in social configurations". Andrew M. tries to defend Jim Robertsons definition of psychopath which flies in the face of the findings respected authorities on psychopathy. And continually asks me why Bill Logan is the head of the International Bolshevik Tendency. What he seems to be asking is why a "proven sociopath" is the head of the International Bolshevik Tendency. However, the ICL who continually calls Bill Logan a psychopath can't even define the term properly. So I think it is reasonable to say that the burden of proof still rests firmly on the ICL on whether Bill Logan is a psychopath. Perhaps if the ICL wants to make that case that Bill Logan is a psychopath they should first declare Jim Robertson's definition of psychopath in the Logan Dossier to be erroneous then go through the psychopath check-list and see if Bill Logan actually exhibits any of the characteristics of psychopathy. As for Andrew's allegation that I "hide behind Robert Hare's definition of psychopath I am at a loss at what this statement actually means Since Robert Hare's book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths amoung Us , which claims that psychopaths have none of the hallmarks of mental illness is based on, if I am not mistaken, over twenty years of extensive of research on the subject.

The ICL claims in the Logan Dossier that Bill Logan experienced delusions. Delusions is associated with psychosis. Delusions and and psychosis are hallmarks of mental illness. So again this would run completely contrary to how leading world authorities on psychopathy define the term. As someone with several mental illnesses including psychosis, not to mention more than a few family members and friends with mental illness, I find Jim Robertson's remarks personally demeaning.

In a genuine Leninist vanguard if Jim Robertson made the remarks he did, other people in the group, I believe would probably say something like "comrade apologize". However, with the ICL being an obedience cult with Jim Robertson as the peerless leader, any remark by Mr. Robertson however vile, fowl, bigoted, ill informed, stupid etc. is made into a test of faith in the peerless leader. Andrew M. tries to defend Robertson's remarks by saying that mentally insane and mentally ill are two different things and the I only would be offended by Jim Robertson's remarks if I thought that I myself was mentally insane. Mentally insane and mentally ill ARE in a way two different things one is politically incorrect. Mentally insane and mentally ill and different in the same way that "Nig**r" and black are two different terms. Frankly, I think Jim Robertson's conflating of psychopathy and mental illness has really become a set of emperor's clothes.

Also, from what I understand, Bill Logan and Adaire Hannah have recognized and repudiated their actions in the Australia/New Zealand section of the International Spartacist Tendecy (IST), the predecessor of the ICL, over 30 years ago and have since then built an organization that doesn't tolerate the same time of behaviour.

Comradely,
M.G.