From: UticaRose-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:30:21 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: M-I: A clearer view? Proyect-ism


In a message dated 97-04-05 10:50:24 EST, lnp3-AT-columbia.edu (Louis N Proyect)
writes:

<< Louis: Hugh, I have no intention of debating you on this list. But for
 people who are fairly new to m-i, let me explain to you who Hugh is and
 what he stands for. 
 
 <<Hugh is a partisan of a tiny Trotskyist current based in Argentina that
 has undergone nothing but splits, expulsions, crisis and decay since 1975. 
 In the 2 years or so that Hugh has been on the list, he has been free with
 his advice about what is wrong with the rest of the left, but has never
 really offered a balance-sheet on the organization he holds up as a model.
 Hugh invites us to identify with a political current that resembles
 nothing less than a rotting carcass with flies buzzing in and out of its
 open wounds. >>

curiously, you will have to look far and long to find feminist or non-marxist
socialist dialogue which routinely uses such horrific images. perhaps this
should also justify my being expelled from this list but may I wonder why one
would take such an easy approach with stalinists who have such fine pedigrees
and use such dehumanizing language with mere political opponents ? 

those who can, do ... those who can't ... well, you can tell us, louie.

there is such an imbalance between reality and rhetoric here, one has to
wonder about the academic influences. 


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