Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:44:44 -0500 (EST)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: info sheet for marxism2


Hans wrote:

> i am a bit confussed about the direction being taken.  Is there 
> really a proposal for *no* new l*st, and including explusion of 
> current members.  If so, i want to strongly object.

Yes, there is such a proposal on the table.  From me.

Please, you guys, will you explain to me -- like to a 6 year old,
as Jon says -- _why_ my counterproposal is objectionable?  _Why_ do we
need 2 lists?  Is it that we need one for people who simply adore
to have their dialogic space disrupted, and another for people
who don't?  Are we going to send to the disruptive list people from
other lists who crave disruptions?  Or will it be restricted to 
disruption-craving marxists only?

We all agree that expulsion from lists is a very rare thing.  In my
memory of Spoon, it happened twice before.  But it does happen.  Why, then, 
do we, in the case of marxism, need to create a special list on which it
may sometimes happen?  When in truth it may sometimes happen on _any_ list?  
And why do we, suddenly, need a list which we declare forever exempt 
>from this possibility? 

I would understand if it was felt that we needed a separate  Shining Path
list, and felt the generous impulse to create one.  Then we could have
Luis Q and Adolfo (I insist on both) join Spoon and do admin.  But I haven't
heard such a proposal yet, so I assume that's not it.  So then what _is_?


-malgosia