From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Subject: Re: M-I: Communist unity (Jim Hillier, Ben Seatlle) (fwd from LeninList) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:36:10 -0500 (CDT) Ben's post and the included post by Jim Hillier are serious contributions (whether correct or not) to marxist thought, and at some later date I hope to respond to their content. But Ben includes an unnecessary personal reference in his, and I would like to ask him (or perhaps Mark himself) to repost Mark's offending post (perhaps with the parts of Ben's original message Mark's post referred to). I am thinking in the introductory paragraphs where he refers to a response of Mark's as having been "unserious." Now I have differed with Mark rather sharply recently, but I find it offensive not only to Mark but to all of us who have taken Mark's contributions *seriously* to attempt to begin a new thread while including such an affront. Both Jim and Ben make a good deal of the modifiers "serious" and "seriously," but before spending a good deal of time responding to Ben, I want a bit more information on the parameters of what he deems unserious. Incidentally, it is arguable, even persuasive, that internet media will play an important role in achieving marxist unity. It by no means either "goes without saying" or is at all obvious that such is the case. I would have a hard time taking Ben seriously if he does not take alternative positions on the importance of electronic communications serious. Carrol --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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