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
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