Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:14:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: M-I: appreciation



Barkley writes:

>Just cool out, malgosia.  You have 
>gotten what you wanted which was to dump all these noisy, 
>troublesome lists.  It is perfectly reasonable that lots of 
>people who were not responsible for causing you trouble are 
>unhappy about this decision, and your utter disrespect for 
>the lot of us is itself beneath contempt.


No, no, you're wrong, Barkley.  There's a lot more to it than that.  I, too,
was a little sore when the news broke a week ago.  And, yes, it would have
been a little easier to take if there had been some more discussion,  What
happened is, in retrospect, understandable, though.  I spoke before I fully
understood the depths of feeling involved in this decision.  There were
profound differences that only occasionally surfaced, and then usually in
some other form.  Malgosia, especially gave a lot more of herself than I had
realized, and in a context which pained her deeply.  Nobody should have to
go through that.  I don't think she is speaking to us so much out of
disrespect, more like disappointment and frustration, maybe.  

And if that sounds like an apology to Malgosia and Spoons, well, I guess
then it is.

Louis Godena,
marxism-international   




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