File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-18.151, message 43


Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:00:11 -0500
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings)
Subject: Re: M-I: You're dead meat


>Well, comrades, it does appear that the "dead letter box" excess letters we
>were getting were caused by a faulty system which one of our subscribers
>belonged to. That subscriber was *not* even remotely Stalinist and the fault
>was a technical problem.
>
>Can we accept that as a precedent in favour of not hinting blame in the
>absence of evidence?
>
>Zeynep
>-moderator-


Would that you had applied and adhered in a principled manner to that same
policy you have now discovered, instead of joining in the chorus of bogus
counter-revolutionary accussations alleging "sexism" and "death threats" and
then acting as a pawn of the Trotskyst sectarians in suspending Jay Miles
and Adolfo Olaechea.  Because, then, you not only "hinted" but "proclaimed"
blame on the sole strenght of your "visceral reactions". and as a
consequence, this list has sunk to the level it has and you have lost all
moral authority to do anything about it.  

Is it not time that you and Jonathan, instead of blaming the mass of
subscribers (reminding me of how the bourgeosie wants to "dissolve the
people" instead of "dissolving itself or their parliamentary governments)
will make even a tiny bit of self-criticism and consider standing down, like
the socialist you two are supposed to be?  What ever happened to the spirit
of the commissioners of the Paris Commune?  You two seem to me like a couple
of devout parishioners going to confession and telling the priest:  "I can
not hear, father" - when told what your appointed penitence should be.


Adolfo



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