File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-13.154, message 90


Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:12:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: vanity publications


Barkley:

>     I have published numerous articles in numerous outlets 
>on numerous topics, too numerous to bore this list with.  

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Louis: Look, Barkley, won't you do yourself a favor and go somewhere where
you'll find like-minded individuals. You write all this self-congratulatory
bullshit because I crack a joke about "vanity publications" and it gets
under your skin. You want me to put a little smiley face next to it? OK. : . )
How's that.

The point is that you are basically the same kind of person as Stanley
Aronowitz, except in your case you are minor league pedant rather than a big
muckety-muck like him. The reason you played a guessing game with the list
about who it was that had the PCP's number is that you wanted to surprise
everybody with the fact that you had written a book. Big fucking deal. We
are not impressed by book-writers here. We are interested by intelligent
Marxist thought. 

But you are not capable of this. 

You are an anticommunist and not even a particularly sophisticated one at
that. Anybody who would bother a mailing list moderated by people like
Godena, Zeynep and Jon with questions like, "So what do you have to say
about Richard Pipes' new expose of Lenin, smarty-pants. Nyah-nyah-nyah."

Doesn't it occur to you that we look to this space not to have therapy
sessions about the horrors of communism. We are preoccupied rather with the
problem of how to get rid of capitalism, a subject you show scant interest in.

I split PEN-L when it became clear to me that it was loaded with people who
thought like you. Why do you burden M-I with your anticommunist kvetching?
Well, I love to see Louis Godena shove your nose in your bullshit, so maybe
you should stick around. It is highly amusing every time he shows you up.
                                                                    



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