Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:52:07 +0000 From: Mark Jones <Jones_M-AT-netcomuk.co.uk> Subject: Re: M-I: On Che & the PCP (fwd from moderator) Lou Proyect wrote: > Where I part company with my comrade and friend Mark Jones on the Maoism > question is that I view it as a bankrupt political current in the advanced > capitalist countries, where our struggles are taking place. The Maoist > movement in the USA and Great Britain attracts the same sort of uncreative, > dogmatic material as does the Trotskyist movement. > You don't part company with me there at all. I split with organised Maoism when I was still a student, and you know how long ago that was. The Maoists I met were mostly insane. The Trotskyists were often clever, sometimes well-read but usually completely unprincipled and duplicitous. The communists in pro-Soviet parties were for the most part the most stupid, narrow-minded, boring people I ever knew. Did I leave anything out? No, don't think so. Mark Oh, yes, I left out the academic Marxists and value-theoreticians. These were people who, incomprehensibly to my naive mind, decided it was possible to build an academic career out of Marxism. Astonishingly, 20 years later when I leaf thru Rethinking Marxism volumes thick as phone books, I find most of them succeeded and are now tenured professors! --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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