Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:34:40 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: AUT: So long for now


I am unsubbing because there is just not enough of a challenge here and I
am tired of listening to whining about how I am crashing your party.
Although I am leaving, I might be back like Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The
Terminator".

My suggestion to one and all is to begin to learn how to analyze concrete
class relations. This is what Marx did in Capital. For people who pay so
much lip-service to Marx, there has been absolutely no engagement with how
the Cuban people changed society beginning in the early 1960s. It is one
thing to deny that this happened, it is another to run away from the
responsibility of supplying data to back up your conclusions.

I understand how people like "commie00" do this, since I presume he is some
kind of working stiff with no access to a research library. It is another
for an economics professor like Harry Cleaver to spend several days in
debate on Cuba without giving even the slightest inkling that he has read
some of the basic literature on Cuba, from Edward Boornstein to James
O'Connor. If somebody came here alleging that the Zapatistas were Stalinist
goons, Harry would presumably provide counter-evidence that they are not.
But when it comes to Cuba, he has had absolutely nothing substantial to
say. He relies on empty generalizations supported by a heterodox
interpretation of V. 1 of Capital. This is not Marxism, it is scholasticism
of the worst sort.

Take care, your evil Leninist cousin

Louis Proyect

Louis Proyect
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