From: michael lepore <lepore89-AT-matrix.newpaltz.edu>
Subject: Re: Collecting up links
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 17:54:06 -0400 (EDT)


> In running a historical archive, which features influential Marxists in
> history, can we seriously consider leaving out Stalin and Mao? 

Ken, it appears that you have a vision about the mission of the archive,
and that is driving you more than something pragmatic like availability of
disk space.  It's not clear to me what "historical" means -- does that mean
"dead for forty years" or something like that?  Does it mean proven to
be influential in national events?  Does it mean that one has added axioms
to the body of theory?  What do the people in the archive have that 
some organization founded last week doesn't have?  Maybe answering those
questions will also answer your own question.

P.S.  I personally think Stalin and Mao were "Marxists" like the 
Spanish Inquisition was "Christian", i.e., putting on a name like one
puts on a hat, but I'm trying to respond to your question in the spirit
you probably intended rather than through my Dogmatic Sectarian role  :)

Lepore