Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:57:09 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Rotten Tomatoes and Rotten Elements


Mark Jones:

>fact that Proyect's muzzles were stuffed not with real ordnance but an 
>assortment of rotten tomatoes, banana-skins which he himself will slip 
>on soon enough, and other mouldy old fruit.

Awk!!! Just after I fell between two sacks of potatoes, I have landed in a
new pile of produce. My dad was a fruit and vegetable vendor and being must
determine consciousness even on this level.

>petit-bourgeois left, the Champagne Charlies of world Trotskyism, visited
once
>again upon the heads of the proletarians and peasants in the colonial and
>semi-feudal rimlands of world capitalism.

Champagne Charlie? This sounds awful. I haven't heard language like this
since I was a spot-welder in Kansas City. That's what my coworkers used to
call me all the time: Champagne Charlie. I begged them not to call me this.
(The only thing I hate more than this is to be called cho-cho. That was my
nickname when I was 3 years old and it used to drive me crazy. My cousin
Louis--we were both named after our grandpa--was called da-da. He hated his
nickname as well.)

>and pre-empt the leadership of party and class, just as our own Grey Koba
did in
>the Lenin List, only to be mercilessly exposed by Lenin and chastised by
Stalin,
>as our own Grey Koba can also expect to be exposed and chastised.

Gray Koba? Isn't this a type of sushi?

>
>Petrograd in 1921 was no working class at all, but a bunch of Kronstadt
>hooligans and strike-breakers, of the worst kind of porridge-hoarding
lumpens,
>of semi-proletarians scrounging and thieving from the villages?

I'll tell ya something. If there's any porridge-hoarding after the
revolution in the United States, I'll personally take responsibility for
rounding up and executing the Kornilovist scum.

>
>Yes, it is Proyect who snatched defeat from victory at the last moment,
when he
>forgot that global warming is not a political football to be kicked around
>between competing national bourgeosies, but a form of apearance, an
>epiphenomenon, of capitalism's worst historical crisis.
>

This is not fair. My hands are rather tiny and I could never get them
around a football. You really know how to hurt a guy.

>
>Proyect, continuing the politics which turned a nationalist movement (the
>Sandinistas) into an arm of the World Bank and CIA, the politics which has
>fouled the image of the Cuban revolution and which today makes a virtue
out of
>child prostitution, AIDs, gambling, and the wreckage of the achievements
of the
>Cuban proletariat, does so, he says, because New York philistine, petit
bourgeois
>'socialists' still claim that Cuba is a 'dictatorship', and it would be
unwise
>to let reality catch up with illusion too soon.
>

That's quite a mouthful. Don't forget that Daniel Ortega wore 200$
eyeglasses and that Fidel Castro has cowardly refused to invade the United
States and destroy the imperialist monster in its lair. 

>Now Proyect goes a step further and in a grandiose gesture
>marches out as the defender of ALL the world's quisling client-states, for
the
>plain fact is that in all of the G77 countries without exception the same
things
>are true: an impassable gulf between rich enclaves and the masses;
prostitution
>and child-slavery offered instead of public health and education
programmes; the
>worst forms of environmental despoliation -- all THIS is what Proyect
wants to
>defend when like a St George in shining armour, he rides out to give
succour to
>these poor 'defenceless' regimes. 
>

Gosh, I now feel like Lucifer in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Basking in
the glow of my own evil, I feel positively heroic in an anti-hero sort of
way. 

> 
>And Lou Proyect does not object to this, he only asks for fair play in 
>the divvying up of the proceeds of this foul and breathtakingly-cynical 
>business. He supports G77 demands for 'technology-transfer', meaning, for
>a chance to join the real rich man's club, G7. 

Okay, in all seriousness. I advocate strict controls over the imperialist
nations and a much laxer approach to the neocolonial world. I also advocate
that credits and aid be made available to further energy production in
these countries that does not release carbon emissions. So sue me. None of
this is meaningful in the final analysis unless there is socialism. I am
for socialism. That is the only way these problems can be addressed, let
alone solved. Socialism is the answer. Got it?

>
>Pursuit of such chimerical illusions obscures the central fact, the only 
>thing that counts: that the proletariat and its social allies in each 
>country  MUST wage merciless and implacable peoples' war on the vulture 
>of world  capitalism, snipping off the claws which grip it in each 
>'dependent'  colonialised territory.
>

Okay, this sounds good to me. Let's get started.

>
>Anyone who deviates from the straight path of Peoples' War and the 
>creation of militarised Marxist-Leninist parties to conduct Peoples' 
>War, has walked off the nomansland dividing the two great historical 
>classes now locked in final struggle and has joined forces 
>with the bourgeoisie.
>

Yeah, let me know who they are and I'll put live lobsters in their
underwear without delay.

Louis Proyect



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