Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:42:29 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-G: Spectator sport?


At 08:36 AM 5/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
>I am intrigued by the interest shown by esteemed posters like Doug, Louis
>P, and Mark in the last days of marxism-general. Is this some sort of
>spectator sport? Are they poking the poor animals in the bear bit hoping to
>see yet a few more entertaining scraps before the end.?
>
>
>Chris Burford

I have a morbid interest in m-g because the only reason for its existence
was to keep Hans Ehrbar happy. When Doug and I met with the Spoons
Collective 2 summers ago, there was considerable worry about how Hans would
react to the creation of moderated lists. The solution would be to keep him
happy by allowing a rump unmoderated list to continue. The reason I paid
attention to m-g intermittently is that it was used as a staging area for
attacks on the other mailing-lists and on me in particular. It was our
Honduras.

I think it is vitally important that such a mailing-list exist somewhere,
because there has to be a pole of attraction for people like Bob Malecki
and Rolf Martens. In the body of Marxism, such a list functions as a small
intestine. It is also important for such a list to exist, since it allows
people like Chris Burford and Hans Ehrbar to administer to it. Their
attraction to Bob Malecki is quite remarkable. In the phone call I had with
Hans on the eve of the announcement that the Marxism lists were
disappearing, the subject of Malecki came up. Hans told me that Malecki was
a genuine revolutionary. I replied that one thing that you must expect from
revolutionaries is complete truth, especially to other leftists. Anybody
who has taken the trouble to read his memoir, as I did, will discover
patent falsehoods on every page. The "Ford division of Chrysler"? My foot.

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)


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