File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-06.201, message 50


From: kjkhoo-AT-pop.jaring.my
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 21:29:59 +0800
Subject: Re: M-I: Same old crap about Peru


At 12:58 pm +0800 5/3/97, Paul Zarembka wrote:

 * Louis, Did you actually study the document you forwarded?  Have a look
 * just at the bibliography, reproduced below.  Now compare that to actual
 * citations IN THE TEXT to the bibliography.  NO. 4, 12, AND 14 are
 * extensively cited, NO. 1 is cited once.  That's it, for the portion of
 his
 * speech you forwarded to the list.
 *
 * Now look at the each citations carefully.  NO. 4 and 12 are old books
 from
 * the Stalin period.  Except for his own citation to himself in (1, 1994)
 * and numbers (5, dated 1983) and (7, no date), everything else is even
 * earlier in time than the Stalin-era books and not about Peru.
 *
 * Compare that to just ONE CHAPTER in THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN
 * RUSSIA written by Lenin for his and his party's own preparatory period
 and
 * look at his extensive contemporary citations.
<snip>
 * Adolfo Olaechea did]".  On this point I could not agree more (but not the
 * way you meant it) and invite you to read my article on Venezuela with
 Juan
 * Pablo Perez Sainz if you are interested in Latin America.


By this post, P Zarembka has vindicated Mark Jones' and others' judgment on
him. Rather than providing a critical analysis of Adolfo Olaechea's
analysis, he resorts to comments about bibliographic citations! What does
that prove? On that score, Samuel Huntington would be correct on everything
- just look at his bibliographies and citations.

And worst of all, in response to something about Peru, P Zarembka invites
us to read himself on Venezuela, presumably full of footnotes and
bibliographic citations - is that what truth consists of: copious footnotes
and citations?

KJ




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