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From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: "empire: marx for our times", the observer comment
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:45:43 -0500


Hahahaha!  As a long-time Mumia supporter and defense activist, I can tell
you that Workers' World is far from Mumia's politics.  Not only that,
outside New York they have minimal influence (and even there they burned a
lot of bridges defending 'socialist' Serbia).  Mumia himself, if one reads
his books, is something of a humanist and would find himself at home in a
lot of our discussions, although he tends towards MOVE's politics, which has
severe limitations.

However, a stirring critical engagement with Mumia has yet to be done and
would be worth seeing.  I think many people have been afraid to challenge
Mumia's politics for fear of hurting the campaign to save his life.  That
would be a mistake, IMO, but then again, I have not risen to that challenge
either.  And I do not mean a critique in a hostile sense, but one which
tries to understand exactly what makes Mumia powerfully attractive as well
as limited.

Cheers,
Chris
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From: "Another Brick at the Gap" <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: AUT: "empire: marx for our times", the observer comment


>
> --- ozgur gokmen <ogokmen-AT-metu.edu.tr> wrote:
>
> >
> > btw, sean, i just couldn't see the reason why you
> > find this very
> > suprising.
>
> Ozgur,
> a lot of the pro-mumia groups tend to be loosely
> associated with the worker's world party
> (authoritarian socialist party, some have even told me
> it's stalinist but i don't know that much about them)
> here in the u.s., so to see mumia reading that kind of
> stuff really threw me for a loop... i figured
> revolution betrayed might be on his reading list, but
> not that kind of stuff...
> -Sean
>
>
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