File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1998/marxism-general.9805, message 301


Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 18:34:47 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-G: On the close down of Marxism space


Chris Burford:
>While I am on record as criticising Bob's contributions which I think are
>typically spart - no potential for dialogue in the criticism, just exposure
>of everything wrong in everyone else's position; Hugh will argue a mean
>argument. I have to think how to counter his reply on united fronts. 

Chris, you are really very poor at perceiving how little interest there is
in broader Marxist circles in an argument between you and Hugh Rodwell. Do
you remember when I kept writing you privately to tell you that the debate
between you, Malecki, Martens, Jay Miles and Quispe was destroying the old
Marxism list? And you didn't get it, did you. You have to appreciate that
these sorts of debates, while interesting to people like you and the other
sectarians, drive normal people to take drastic action. I don't think
anybody killed themselves as a result of the 3  month, 100 message a day,
debate over who really was the genuine voice of the Shining Path, but they
certainly did leave the old Marxism list en masse. I know you will find
this hard to believe, but that 3 month debate was for the submoronic. As a
result of it, the Spoons Collective decided to go to a moderated format.
They left you and Hans and the nuts to Marxism-General where essentially
that type of debate just picked up where it left off. In a way it was good
that M-G was created. It was a like a padded cell where noodniks like
Rodwell, Malecki and Levy could retreat to when the other lists got them in
a psychotic state. Tomorrow you and the rest of the cuckoo's will either
find a new nest or you will simply disappear. In any case, genuine Marxist
discussion will go on without you.

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


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