From: Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: For a List of Marxist Re-Affirmation
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:33:46 +0200


Actually, I am in favour of Adolfo and his allies having their own lists, in
which they can exclude anyone they like. Marxism-International never had the
purpose of keeping together people who don't even want to discuss anything
with each other. My opinions are already a matter of public record, I made
the original proposal of Marxism-International. I am certain that if people
who don't agree with the charter of marxism-international, and who
apparently insisted on posting to this list for reasons I don't know
(perhaps not having a suitable alternative), have some space where they can
have their rules as they like, all parties would benefit. It would make all
of our lives easier.

I include two paragraphs from the charter of Marxism-International below,
which sums up the purpose of this list. I truly believe that the problem of
too many list subscribers having too much free time to spend in front of a
computer, and little else to do, has compounded our problems. It is my
personal opinion that people living in countries in which the on-going
revolutionary struggle is dynamic and alive have different priorities than
those that seem to have endless time to ruminate over questions, often but
not always irrelevant, that are not possible to solve in a mailing list.

I also encourage members to choose a suitable list. Marxism-International
will never exclude political currents that consider themselves to be on the
side of the working class. Unfortunately, that means that we'll have
subscribers that annoy and anger other subscribers. If you don't want to be
annoyed, please do leave. 

The three post limit is there because it is too expensive to download
hundreds of messages each day. Unless internet becomes dirt-cheap for us not
living in the imperialist countries, the limit is going to stay.

Zeynep

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