From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: new listnames. Louis: Yes. Lisa: No!
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:41:38 -0600 (CST)


    I agree 101% with Louis. I only read the first 9 lines of Lisa's
message (through "and inter-disciplinary way")but if she really means
what she seems to mean, and if the new list is anything at all like
that, I'm outta here: it would be worse than the PCP.
    Carrol

>
> I think it is a mistake to expect the new list to be polite. You can't
> enforce this. The key ingredient is banning factions. The problem with
> the PCP is not their politics, but the fact that they have hijacked the
> list as a group.
>
> Louis
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Lisa Rogers wrote:
>
> > What shall we call the new list, marxian?  marx-phil?  marxish?
> >
> > I rather enjoy 'fake-leftist' and 'groucho-marxist', but those are
> > sort of inside jokes, from inside marxism list.
> >
> > The plan is that the new list shall be anti-sectarian and mostly
> > polite, or else - expulsion.  Also, I want no more
> > anti-'academic'ism, and no more measuring everything by whether or
> > not it fits some particular orthodoxy, or 'forwards the revolution'.
> >
> > I want to be able to discuss the implications and influence of
> > marxian thought in an inter-occupational and inter-disciplinary way.
> > It should allow for discussion of struggle and methods of social
> > change as well as relations of marxian thought to any and every other
> > field of thought / activity.
> >
> >
> > For the old one, I'm thinking of calling it 'left', as in
> > left-behind.  I don't know what would happen with it, because if the
> > rest of us leave, then the maoist maniacs will have nobody to leaflet
> > and denounce.  I guess they can all just congratulate each other on
> > their great success, which is fine, because they will _not_ be
> > allowed to invade the new list.
> >
> > Any suggestions for names?
> >
> > Lisa
> >
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