Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:26:17 +0000
Subject: M-G: (Fwd) Re: M-I: (Fwd) paper pt 1


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From:          Self <Single-user mode>
To:            Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject:       Re: M-I: (Fwd) paper pt 1
Date:          Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:18:02

> Date:          Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:15:03 -0500 (EST)
> From:          Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
> To:            dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz
> Subject:       Re: M-I: (Fwd) paper pt 1

> On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz wrote:
> 
> > Justin,
> > I know what its like when Louis P will not repsond to an argument.  
> > If you want some argument against market socialism and for planned 
> > socialism here is a paper on that subject. It is in three parts.  
> > I would appreciate a good critique of it.
> > Dave.
> > 
> 
> Look, David, Justin and I have had terrific arguments in the past. He is
> one of my favorite people to debate because he is so sharp. Your problem
> is that you overestimate your own intellectual powers and this causes you
> to come across as impossibly arrogant. Also, you label people. Don't you
> realize that you, Rodwell and Malecki are the only people who label
> others? This will cause you to be politically isolated on the list.
> Rodwell and Malecki didn't seem to mind this. I suppose you don't either.
> Use of the word "menshevik" to describe other people's ideas is *not
> necessary*. It *cuts off* a debate, rather than facilitates one.
> 
> Louis
> 
 I call you a menshevik because that is the scientific term for 
someone with your politics Louis.  It is not a label in any other 
sense. As for my intellectual powers,  I am happy for you to prove 
yourself correct anytime.  But each time we get to a point in the 
argument when your position is under threat, you find some excuse not 
to continue. I am still waiting for you to display your intellectual 
powers by proving me wrong on  the question of was Lenin justified to 
treat the menshevik splitters in the way he did in 1906. 

Dave.


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