Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:44:06 +0000
From: Lew <Lew-AT-dialogues.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: Challenge to Lew as a prologomenon to a serious exchange


In article <3.0.16.19971112163451.24bf0ecc-AT-pop.qut.edu.au>, Gary
MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au> writes

>It looks like Lew and James and myself will be at this for a while.  It
>would help if Lew would come on out and tell us what organisation he is
>with.  The ISO is my best guestimate.

My politics were put under scrutiny on M-I earlier this year. I have
always argued on this list that, as far as humanly possible, we should
speak to each other as individuals and not as representatives of
organisations. But for those who are interested try 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/worldsm/

Not that it's relevant to any argument, but my parents came from County
Cork (Skibereen). My mother saw the body of Michael Collins shortly
after he was killed. (Let's see what the Freudians make of that!). My
full name is Lewis Higgins; it's abbreviated in my email because that's
how my friend's software is set up and it is thanks to her that I can
get on the internet.

>At present I am an independent Marxist with a distinctly Liberterian
>flavour.  In other words I loathe party building and the denizens of sects
>who feel that they are the bearers of the truth when in reality all they
>read is the internal party bulletin.

I can go along with that. I suppose you could describe my politics as
anti-Leninist Marxism. What I really dislike in the Leninist/Trotskyist
approach to Ireland, etc is how manipulative it is; the workers are so
much cannon fodder in the greater glory of building the party. 
-- 
Lew


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