File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-02-11.162, message 7


Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 09:28:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu>
Subject: M-I: Re: cockroach 


Robert Malecki wrote:

>  But Jerry's actions earlier on both M1 and M2 were also a big
>  skandal. Because when he held in the stick he help to creat special
>  rules for his political opponents.

What "skandal" was that? I was never a moderator of marxism or m2, was
never a member of m1 (since that term only came into being when m2 was
created), and was never a member of the Spoon or Marx administration
lists -- so when did I help  "creat special rules" against "political
opponents" (who?).

> Including accusing his political opponents of being cops and agent
> provacateurs.

On that point, I support you. As much as I think you are (ha! ha! ha!) a
bit off-the-wall, the charge that you are or were a cop/provacateur was
made without any evidence or proof. Quite simply, he didn't like you and
-- like the unprincipled charlatan that he is -- accused you of being a
cop in order to dismiss and isolate your ideas and drive you away from the
list.

The issue of cop-baiting has a long history in the workers' movement and
has, in fact, been a tool utilized by repressive arms of the bourgeois
state (like the FBI) to destroy progressive political organizations (e.g.
it was discovered that a favorite COINTELPRO tactic was for FBI informers
to accuse leading members of the Black Panther Party of being cops). In
general, I think that if such a charge is made then the person making the
charge has the responsibility of furnishing proof or else the person
accusing another of being a cop should be discredited. It is an indictment
of the undead that so few of its members opposed his scurrilous action and
even now think think highly of the worm.

Jerry





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