File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9803, message 226


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!




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