From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph-AT-indigo.ie> Subject: M-G: Re: Re "cops", "expulsions", etc. Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:31:29 -0700 KARL: I found the passage below copied from a recent message of Vladimir to contain a lot of sense. I am certainly against any attempts to have anybody including Rolf expellef from this list. VLADIMIR:Now to Rolf's detractors. Chris Burford and Ola Eriksson have requested that Rolf withdraw or be expelled from the list. And Hans Ehrbar immediately follows up on this by sayng that while the list "lacks" the expulsion policy he is "willing" to expel Rolf if the "list" decides so. There is an air of concerted effort in all this and it bothers me. Who is the "list"?The list are those who contribute to it. But out of the four individuals who appear to wish Rolf out, three have made no contributions ever to m-g. Doug Henwood have been lurking here for reasons known only to him. Ola Eriksson's just appeared out of the blue and, it seems, with the only goal of purging Rolf out of here. Hans Ehrbar is "technical personel" -- for which we're all sincerely grateful to him -- but not a contributing list member. So I do not see what right these three have to demand some one's expulsion from the list of which they are not bona fide participants. To allow this could make a very dangerous precedent. To give you an example. Say, I don't like a list member and want him out. I ask a dozen of my friends who have nothing to do with marxism or simply no desire or time to contribute to the list to help me. They subscribe, and a week or two later I give them a signal to pop up and become a vox populi demanding the expulsion of my enemy. We don't want this to happen to this precious list of ours, do we? ---------- --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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