Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:24:13 -0500
Subject: Re: M-G: Instructive spectacle


>The M-I squabble seems to have taken a more serious turn. 
>It looks like the stalinist crowd attempts to overtake the list, or else....
>Adolfo's lapdogs are out, barking and wheezing, poor Barkley-"Hoebbels" is
>on his hindlegs pleading for peace, the moderating Trinity is back against
>the wall, and the trotskyists is bashed around by all and...loftily fly high
>above. A sad but instructive spectacle for a young man like myself.
>
>But there is one truly hilarious moment in all this.  I have in mind the 
>unenviable predicament of the Proyect-Henwood crowd who have been honored 
>by Adolfo inviting them for a comradely tet-a-tet on the future trots-free 
list.
>Just imagine our friends Proyect and Henwood envisioning themselves left alone
>face to face with the Stalin society comrades to engage in "productive" 
discussions
>on the vanguard party and social-imperialism!! No wonder that Proyect has been
>lately sending desperate signals to avoid the disaster (see his posts on 
>Stalin and Vyshinsky) in hope to receive a gentle admonition from Adolfo. 
In vain!
>Adolfo turns deaf ear to "Hoebbels-like" smearing of the Great Friend of Soviet
>Prosecutors, and the Knights of the Secret Front too. No gentle admonitions for
>Proyect, and no way out from the terrifying prospect of comradely discussions 
>tet-a-tet. 
>
>I read this episode as just another confirmation of the lesson amply provided
>by M1: the petty-bourgeois left and "unreformed" stalinists alike can survive 
>politically and even form rotten blocks *only* in front of their common 
enemy - 
>the followers of Lenin and Trotsky. I guarantee that if the trotskyists on M-I
>withdrew from the list, in a couple of months they would find Proyect's and 
Adolfo's
>mobs slugging at each other like LA's Bloods and Crips.
>
>Vladimir

The above is so funny. I choked on my coffee in the reading..

At the same time it is quite interestin in seeing the rotten block squirm 
with their organisational "solutions" to their own political bankruptcy! And 
if the "ivory tower" wandered off quietly to M2 it looks like the rotten 
block wants to go out in a more hysterical style of screaming "Help us, 
those horrible Trotskyists" are ruining all of our attempts to continue down 
their historical road as if nothing has happened.

Well the truth is that Stalinism is dead! And what we are seeing is the last 
of the maggots to survive off of the coffin...And it appears that they are 
trying to use just about every dirty trick in the book in order to show how 
really insignificant this little 
cyber leftovers really are..

But one think I would really like to give Aldolfo credit for. He in fact 
helped draw all the closet Stalinists and their petty bougeois supporters 
out into the open! And christ what a sickening lot of aging maggots who have 
been around for years trying to fool poor and working class people.

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki




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