Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:06:45 GMT From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org> Subject: M-I: Robert Scheetz and feminism I think Doug is right to put some pressure on Robert Scheetz to make clear his interest in the list. According to my collated index for 1995 Robert Scheetz was posting between 30 June and 13 August 1995. Subjects included bourgeois feminism and identity politics. Among people who responded critically or very critically were Lisa Rogers and Matt D. My recollection was that the ideas were at best muddled and at worse provocative. I thought I recalled Louis P bringing his contributions to an end with a big blast, which actually worked. But I have not checked this. My differences with Louis P on this sort of question in the past on M1 has been while this sometimes worked, at other times a big blast led to a bigger and more time consuming flame war. My tactics on the totally unrestricted M1 list were that we had no alternative but to try to engage every single isolated but determined poster, *somehow* to see the wisdom of moderating themselves. That I freely admit had considerable disadvantages too. I welcome Louis P's comments now about the fact that the 3 post rule makes all this much easier to handle. Totally ignoring trivial, unproductive, or provocative posts is now not only the preferred option of most subscribers but is also more viable, however unusual the agenda of the odd-ball subscriber. I would still tend to say the core answer lies in a clarification of the *content* of the contradictions - in this case of the relationship between marxism and feminism and identity politics, but that debate about the issues of content, might take place better over the head of Robert Scheetz than with him. Alternatively I believe that Spoons are moving ahead with ideas of a marxism-feminism list, which would presumably be moderated, and Robert Scheetz would presumably have to earn his place by the constructive way he demonstrated his ability to clarify issues. Clearly he has a problem that some at least doubt his ability to do so. Chris Burford --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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