File spoon-archives/list-proposals.archive/list-proposals_1996/list-proposals.1996, message 89


Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:34:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Post-Mortem


On Sat, 30 Mar 1996 glevy-AT-acnet.pratt.edu wrote:

> I believe that the refusal of some to see any major problems with that 
> l'st other than volume and the tendency to view the l'st as the 5th 
> International contributed to its protracted and tortured death agony.  

No, there are other major problems.  Always have been, in fact.  But I 
think that when the l*st had a lower volume, it was possible to deal with 
those problems in ways that are no longer possible; now, new means have 
to be found.  Certainly the construction of *more* spaces is one of those 
means.

I think it's a little silly to talk about the death of a l*st.  I don't 
think marxism is dead.  On the other hand, I wouldn't particularly mind 
if it were if it were no longer serving anyone's purposes.  In fact, I 
find it pretty boring and not escpecially helpful (in any possible way 
that I can think of) to hear such a death continually pronounced.
 
> aut-op-sy works because its members share a similar perspective and 
> *want* it to work. 

Yes, but neither interest nor desire can be regulated, whatever one puts 
in the info sheet.  I think this is the basic point.

> Jerry

Take care

Jon

Jon Beasley-Murray
Literature Program
Duke University
jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons


   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005