From: "Geoffrey J McDonald" <geosophia-AT-prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: sticks and stones
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 09:13:46 -0700


Franco wrote:

> This is the reason, I think, for which many comrades (among whom is
> myself) got tired with the discussion on the Zaps. I am afraid that
> such threads are instrumentalized either for petty personal revenge
> or for a struggle for sectarian forms of "hegemony" that make no
> sense in a forum like this.

As one of the few voices on this list who've been interested in engaging in
critical dialogue about the Zaps, I find this accusation baseless and
absurd. The fact remains that little of the substantial critical points
about the Zaps have been responded to.     

> And I am disappointed that the sad
> history of other lists has taught so little, from this point of
> view. Anyway, all I can suggest to comrades in aut-op-sy is to go
> back to our WWW homepage, where Steve and I suggested some
> directions for the development of this list: things like discussion,
> analysis, research and information on changing forms of class
> composition, struggles and movements on a world scale.

The home page is headed with a picture of some "autonomists" marching under
the EZLN banner. Talk about sectarianism!

Geoff  




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