Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:49:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: M-G: Re: M-TH: Tragedy and farce


On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Hugh Rodwell wrote:
> 
> As the tide rises higher and higher, our censors and would-be liquidators
> will look more and more foolish into the bargain. And they'll get lonelier
> and lonelier as their flattering friends realize they've been backing the
> wrong horses and do a bunk as soon as their feet get wet.
> 

That's it. You've gotten my gander up, you grotty little man.

All I can say is that the barn door was shut a long time before the horses
got out. And you could see the horses now prancing along the beach. And
you know what that beach is? I bet you don't. It is the BEACH OF
ZINOVIEVISM. When Zinoviev wrote his articles attacking the Brandlerites,
where were you? You didn't defend them, did you? It's no excuse that you
weren't born yet. Considering the fact that Posada the Argentinian
travelled in flying saucers, you'd realize that he could have gone
backwards in time at the speed of light, like they do on Star Trek. You,
after all, are a Morenoite and Moreno was trained by Posada. I consider
this refusal to travel backwards in time a betrayal of Trotskyist
principles. No, more than a betrayal. It is a downright Stalinistic act of
sadistic brutality, like serving white wine with ice cubes.

Furthermore, the only people who are getting lonelier are the people who
can't get a date on Saturday night because they are too particular about
the political credentials of the opposite sex. Why only today I met a
ravishing brunette at the Brecht Forum seminar on finance capital, but she
told me that she admired Frederic Jameson. That was all I needed to hear.
I turned on my heels and walked away. (Why can't I find a woman who is
into C.L.R. James or Gramsci or Mariategui?)

And what was that business about Malgosia and tumescence? I am not dating
Malgosia. She is a fan of Deleuze-Guattari and there's nothing more of a
sexual turn-off than those two. Rhizomes, indeed.

Did I tell ever tell you about my latest insight into the Stalin question
by the way? Misha the Stalinist and Grisha the Trotskyist were discussing
the wonderful life they would live after the revolution.

"Comes the revolution," says Misha, "we'll eat strawberries and cream!"

"But I don't like strawberries and cream," said Grisha.

"Comes the revolution, you'll *have* to eat strawberries and cream!"


Louis Proyect




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