File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/97-01-24.005, message 33


Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 00:28:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: newcomer



Welcome aboard. Perhaps we can geyt some more traffic on this list. It
used to be great before the powers that be at the list-server decided to
reorganize it. Anything in particular you wanted to talk about?

Just to intoduce myself and say a word about the only other regular poster
to the list in recent weeks. I'm a law student at Ohio State University in
Columbus, Ohio. I hope to be a labor lawyer or maybe a professor again. I
used to be a philosophy professor, taught Marxism here at OSU, and was
fired for being too red. Many on various Marxism lists think I'm
hopelessly right wing because I'm an analytical Marxist who workers in
style of Gerry Cohen, Jon Elster, John Roemer, etc, a market socialist,
and an unabashed fan of liberal democracy, though not of its capitalist
variant. I am intolerant of bad argument, rhetorical grandstanding, and
chaep polemics. 

The other regular, Ralph Dumain, is even more eccentric than I. He's a
librarian, I believem by profession, a scholar of CLR James, knowlgeabale
about Hegel and Blake, and he thinks my politics are cranky and odd. I
reciprocate. I respect him a lot. 

We used to have a lot more folks, but, as I say, the listserver shut us
down. So, say something interesting or outrageous and maybe we'll attract
some life again.


--Justin






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