From: "Nate Holdren" <nateholdren-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: AUT: capitalist cuba?
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:19:14 -0500


so... does this mean you find Alan too innocuous to accumulate a dossier on 
him? or does it mean that you'll recommend that he not be sent to a work 
camp but merely to a re-education camp to unlearn all those brain-rotting 
professorial years?


>From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: RE: AUT: capitalist cuba?
>Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:34:32 -0500
>
>Dr. Wallach wrote:
> >So, what I and many others would call state capitalism for Louis equals
> >socialism.  He's no doubt preparing himself for that utopian future by
> >compiling dossiers on those who cross him.  Come Louis's version of the
> >revolution he'll become comissar of correct thinking and have his 
>enemies,
> >real and imagined, shipped off to the gulag.
> >
> >You've got the bully boy, dossier-accumulating style Louis.  Stalin would
> >have loved you.  But I don't think there are too many people left in this
> >world who share your self-serving version of communism or revolution.
>
>Stalin could put people in prison. I have no such power. But professors
>like yourself have plenty of power to fail students. I wonder what makes
>you retain sucn a sectarian style, like you were still in some radical
>collective from 25 years ago or so. Sleeping on mattresses. Running
>mimeograph machines to make leaflets against Amerikkka. Wearing sandals and
>a ratty black turtle-neck shirt. In fact, you are a sixty year old full
>professor who does nothing but write books and articles on art history,
>jets around to academic conferences and spends all his time in the genteel
>surroundings of William and Mary. Does spitting at me make you feel like
>you still belonged to the Anton Pannekoek collective? Well, go ahead. That
>must be a lot easier than actually writing something intelligent about
>Cuba. I still don't understand how becoming a full professor rots out the
>brain so. I have run into more intelligent contributions on email lists
>from people recovering from head injuries.
>
>Louis Proyect
>Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
>
>
>
>
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