File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1996/96-12-15.193, message 28


Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:03:22 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: M-TH: constructive engagement


At 4:56 PM 11/24/96, Gerald Levy wrote:

>A: a list which as part of its list description said that it was a marxist
>list for people who consider themselves marxists. This list and all of the
>other lists at Spoons are *very explicitly* not marxist lists. Maybe some
>of the tension could be eased if there *were* a marxist list since a lot
>of people -- it seems -- *want* a marxist list rather than a list that
>discusses marxism with people who are both marxists and non-marxists.

So far, the most distractingly verbose member of this list has been the
self-identified Marxist quoted above.

I don't see any value in limiting the discussion to Marxists, especially
M'ists as defined by Jerry Levy. The discussion should be open to anyone
who takes Marx seriously. In the various cyberforums we've both frequented,
Jerry, Chris Sciabarra, a Hayekian non-Marxist, has contributed a lot more
of substance than self-identified Marxists like Bob Malecki and Jerry Levy.

Now can we quit the endless quibbling and foreplay and discuss something
serious?

Doug

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