File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-01.214, message 77


From: glevy-AT-acnet.pratt.edu
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 03:17:36 -0500 (EST)
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Cc: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu, Scott Marshall <Scott-AT-rednet.org>
Subject: Farewell Scott


Carlos wrote:
 
>     Scott left?  Well, good.  That's an statement on his side.  He
>     could not take the political heat of political and ideological
>     criticism and could not do more than just post empty reproductions
>     of empty articles of a *very boring* newspaper.  Nothing had been
>     lost.  Or maybe he is building his and yours "mass party" somewhere
>     else.... Who knows ... Who cares ....

I disagree *very* strongly with the above accessment. Scott Marshall is 
by no means a person who intervened on this l'st as a political hack or 
dogmatist. Scott has political disagreements with many others on this 
l'st -- which is fine. Yet, with only a few exceptions (and who hasn't 
been guilty of partaking in at least a few flames?), he was, IMHO, an 
overwhelmingly positive and original presence whose input I will miss.

See you at the barricades, Scott! We shall meet again somewhere.

Jerry


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There were absolutely zero policies of Stalin that Scott Marshall
disagreed with publicly. Scott defended the Moscow trials, the idea that
the Soviet Union was democratic, the policies of the Comintern, etc. RIGHT
UP AND DOWN THE LINE. By an objective standards, Scott Marshall was a
SUPER-STALINIST.

So why has Jerry re-emerged as a dragon-slayer of all Stalin pretenders?
The reason is simple. He hates this list and is trying to provoke a flame
war in order to sink it. He is a very subjective and depoliticized person
whose vendettas against people like me and Doug Henwood take precedence
over everything else.

Jerry knows that Adolfo Olaechea loves to give tit for tat, so he has
consciously tried to provoke him. If Jerry was seriously interested in the
whole question of the "Shining Path", he would have taken the trouble to
answer Adolfo's 97,616 byte address at Liverpool University that was
posted here recently. He doesn't do this for obvious reasons. This would
tax his rather limited intellectual resources. Jerry is much happier
slinging mud.

I want to make public here my disagreement, by the way, with the
lenient attitude our good moderators have taken toward Jerry. Jerry has as
much business on this list as any of the mysterious AOL trollers who used
to show up on M-1. Those people with their anonymous tags were obviously
intent on red-bating mischief. Jerry has stated on numerous occasions that
he is as hostile to M-I as any anonymous AOL red-baiter was to M-1.




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