File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-12.024, message 67


From: UticaRose-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:36:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: M-I: FOR A ONE MAN LIST OF MARXIST NEGATION


In a message dated 97-03-09 20:06:33 EST, detcom-AT-sprynet.com writes:

<< >But this is not why I am responding. With the return of useless hyperbole
 >to this channel I believe that something must be set straight. Adolfo has
 >managed to put himself and his comrades in the communist camp, and all
 >those who disagree with him in the anti-communist, bourgeois imperialist
 >camp. The Manichean world of false dialectics, no doubt. In light of this
 >contrast, I feel that it is important for me to not only disassociate
 >myself from Bolshevism, Stalinism, and Maoism, but to assert publically
 >that one of the major reasons why our movement is in such dismal shape,
 >and precisely why we are on the defensive with large segments of the
 >working class, is because of the state capitalist experience of the Soviet
 >Union and China. As a communist, I can only hold this position. It is
 >Stalinists and Maoists who stand against communism, perhaps not because
 >they are anticommunist, but because they are ignorant and/or unable to
 >admit their failures of theory and practice. They undermine the communist
 >movement. Their Marxism is a false Marxism. History stands clear on this
 >matter. And I want to stand as clear as this history.
 >
 >Andy
 >
 >
 
 It is only common sense to recognise that such a man has nothing in common
 with those whose purpose is to re-affirm Marxism, Marxism-Leninism.  This
 man fully coincides with Mrs Tatcher and Reagan: "marxism is dead",
 "communism is dead".
 
 Let those who want to argue such self-centerd stupidities choose to remain
 in a list open to these types.
 
 
 Adolfo Olaechea
  >>

marxism is not what stalin or mao or any one of the other great dead male
dictators of this century ordered their followers to say it is. marxism is
about argument, debate, conflict and progress. without opposing viewpoints
you wind up with the better thinkers in gulags or camps and those good at
power games pretending to be great thinkers. 

hardly self centered stupidities. a different viewpoint which, apparently,
some desire just never to hear or reasonably dispute. too bad



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