From: UticaRose-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 23:22:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: M-I: Concerning Zeynep and marxism-international


In a message dated 97-03-28 01:26:40 EST, aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu (Andrew
Wayne Austin) writes:

<< Maybe I am missing something. I find Adolfo's arguments way out in the
 ozone somewhere. He has always been abusive. I see nothing new in his
 latest tirade. He desires to have an exclusive little club of devotees
 about which he can fashion an unique "Marxist" view of the world. His
 "vision" is not one that working people would ever willingly accept. I
 regard his beliefs (delusions?) as tyrannical. I believe some people on
 this list are snowed just a bit by deft use of a thesaurus and over-
 the-top revolutionary rhetoric. So I suppose I am asking, what is it that
 I am missing?
  >>


what you are missing is an age-old habit on the left of toleration towards
thugs and bullies. so long as they proclaim themselves as marxists, whatever
they say is excused, minimized, qualified or just ignored. once they announce
their allegiance to the working classes, bullies are treated as if they are
comrades when they would return that by setting up camps and rounding up all
of their class enemies as soon as they had the first chance. remember, Lenin
in his testament shrunk from dealing with the Bolshevik bullies and thugs.
all of stalin's opponents imagined him as a principled communist until they
found themselves in the center of a show trial, a camp or a ditch out in the
woods. and even then, there were apparently leftists who preferred to
surrender their own lives and families rather than be disloyal to that
monster. i believe that a handy litmus test of reason in political discourse
is whether one will defend stalin or mao. how can anyone justify the butchery
? if they can, watch out. apparently its just OK to brand zeynep as
everything short of a fascist bootlicking lackey. curious double standard on
the left. such behaviour would not be tolerated for a minute in anyone else
on any other point in the political spectrum.


     --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---