From: "Antonio Broadwa" <a_broadway75-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Flooding
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:54:01 +0000


BRIEF ENCOUNTER AT THE PRAXIS CAFE

Waiter:  What can I do for you this evening?

LP:  I’ve got a reservation—actually, lots of them.

Waiter:  Your name?

LP:  Doesn’t my reputation precede me?

Waiter: Well, you don’t seem to be in my book.

LP:  I’m in The Book, the one that stands above all the others, the dusty 
one, you know, the one that contains The Unquestionable Word, The Truth.

Waiter:  Oh yeah, The Party of One.  We’ll seat you out back, by the 
dumpster of history.  You’ll be right at home, there’s a Lenin poster on the 
side.

LP = Long Play

LP = Leninist Party

LP = Loony Preaching

LP = Limp Polemic

LP = Lefty Police



>From: Jim Fleming <jim-AT-autonomedia.org>
>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: AUT: Flooding
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:03:08 -0500
>
>For Great Man theorists, "isms" are characterological. Leninists and
>lawyers, as classes, learn to value the club of language. Jim
>
>
>>Harry Cleaver:
>>>Leninism was defeated long ago. Sometimes tho, people find it amusing to
>>>fence with ghosts. It would also be nice to have a Fourierist butt in
>>>sometimes, but hey, you can't have everything.
>>
>>Harry, I don't know how to tell you this but there is no such thing as
>>"Leninism". Lenin was a Russian revolutionary who struggled to build a
>>social democratic party in Russia modeled on the German party of Karl
>>Kautsky. After he died, a schema was created in his name that had little 
>>to
>>do with the party he was involved with. If the Cuban revolution had been
>>led by "Leninists", there would have been no revolution. BTW, I mean to 
>>ask
>>you. You said that there was a revolution in Cuba. Was that a slip of the
>>tongue? Could you explain yourself? What kind of revolution was it? I am
>>under the impression that when Marx spoke about revolution, he meant one
>>class overthrowing another. Or were you using it in the Toni Negri/Spinoza
>>fashion?
>>
>>
>>Louis Proyect
>>Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
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