File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-28.125, message 90


Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:55:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu>
Subject: M-I: Re: Adolfo Olaechea [and his centrist supporters]


> From: " Rahul  Mahajan" <rahul_saumik-AT-hotmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 00:27:39 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: M-I: Adolfo Olaechea
> 
> Just in case any of you didn't want to read the whole sordid diatribe by Adolfo
> Olaechea that "Sid" forwarded to M-I, here's a selection for you:
> 
> >The only road for women to improve their status is to close ranks >with their
> own class, and reject those "self appointed leaders", the >harridans of the
> bourgeosie and enemies of the revolution such as the >vile twister and
> hypocrite bureacratic dictator of M-I Zeynept >Tufekcioglu.  Break their bones
> one by one together with all those >who purport to speak for your interests
> while engaging in blatant >counter-revolutionary plots with the enemies of the
> working class.  >Strike these agents of imperialism before they strike at you.
> 
> There are a lot of people on this list who have been cravenly sucking up to
> Olaechea for the past year -- Louis Proyect, Gary Maclennan, Doug Henwood and
> Carrol Cox (to a considerably lesser degree), among others -- I discount, as
> does any sensible person, Adolfo's gang of goons. Cox at least has admitted
> he's wrong, although he's attempted to say that it was a mistake he made for
> principled reasons. The fact is, of course, as anyone who has watched the whole
> sordid affair develop can see, that they all made this decision for thoroughly
> unprincipled, personal reasons. This is clear from, among other things,
> Maclennan's obsessive hatred of Malecki, who, whether you agree with him or
> not, has never engaged in this kind of vilification, let alone this kind of
> call for violence against a list member solely on the basis of damage to his
> ego, or Proyect's even more obsessive crusade against Trotskyist sectarianism
> while blatantly ignoring the Stalinist/Maoist sectarianism that has been
> plastered all over this and preceding lists.
> 
> It remains to be seen whether any of them will have the guts, or the common
> decency, to admit in full to what they've done. 
> 
> I hope there's still a few people out there who are tired of leaving this list
> to stormtroopers and their tacit allies.

Good for you, Rahul! 

You hit the bullseye!

The Maoists are not the _only_ ones culpable for recent developments. The
record of what I [I think accurately] call the "centrists" needs to be
confronted as well. Without the overwhelmingly uncritical and unprincipled
support of this centrist clique, then Adolfo and Co would have been
isolated and exposed long ago. Now it is the members of this centrist
clique themselves who have been isolated and exposed!

For an end to apologetica!

Jerry



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