File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-11.141, message 42


Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:10:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu>
Subject: M-I: Re: M-TH: Jerry's claims on Marxism-thaxis 


Zeynep Tufekcioglu wrote:

> What happened was that Lou made public that a professor of sociology
> in Jerry's school was the anon. ref. in the Sokal article that got published
> in Social Text, which information was relayed to him by Jerry. That
> professor of sociology was already associated with Social Text, there was
> nothing secret about that. That he was also the department head was,
> according to Lou Proyect, unknown to him at the time.

Randy *was* a professor of sociology. He is now the Chair of the Social
Science & Management Department at Pratt Institute -- a management
position. This was known to Louis. I told him that myself. And when I did
he said he *hoped* disciplinary action was taken against me. His claim
that he didn't know that Randy was Chair of the Dept is also not to be
believed since both Randy and Lou have taught classes at the Brecht Forum
and Randy has been identified as Chair of the Dept. in promotional material
released by the Brecht Forum.

> He had
> made some "threats" that he'd report Hans to his superiors at the university
> some months ago. Most of us had already taken it as an obvious joke. Well,
> considering Marxism-International is an international list and nobody should
> have to worry whether something is or not a joke, Lou Proyect was asked and
> he made a public statement saying that they were jokes, and he never did and
> never would do something like that.

Give me a break. We're talking of at least *four* separate incidents in
which Lou threatened to inform someone to their employer. That's called a
*pattern*.

But, of course, you think it's a joke. Maybe it's because your job isn't
being threatened. Was it only a joke when Lou made homophobic comments on
m-int? Was it only a joke when Lou made sexist comments (which he later
_admitted_ were sexist) on PEN-L? The joke is on anyone who believes him.

Jerry



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