Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 13:13:08 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT:Louis on Reeves


>This is really pathetic: attacking a contributor on the basis of national
>origin. This is actually the second time Louis has sunk to "discrediting"
>Reeves this way. Surely Francophobia is unacceptable to the
>internationalists on this list ...     

Francophobia? I don't have anything against the average French person. What
I find grotesque are the intellectual and political pretensions of the
university and ultraleft milieu that includes both Reeves, the humble
worker, and superstars like Baudrillard and Derrida. Is Reeves French anyhow?

>Reeves said nothing of the sort. He explicitly said that he was not seeking
>to advise the EZLN on what they should do. This would be meaningless. He
>was trying to cut through an enormous amount of crap about the EZLN to come
>to a critical understanding of their movement. 

Okay, my misunderstanding. When he said that they were sucking up to the
Stalinists and the Social Democrats and abandoning their old Autonomist
pals like Reeves, because deep down Subcommandante Marcos had converted to
Leninist "vanguardism", I just assumed that he was telling the EZLN that it
was headed down the slippery slope toward Sandinista and Castroite perfidy.
What could have gotten into me.

Louis Proyect




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