Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:25:44 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: where the action is


At 9:43 AM 1/9/97, Gerald Levy wrote:

>It is true that this list has been relatively quiet recently (and never
>regained its stature since the forcible destruction of m2). Yet, advising
>newcomers to try marxism-general is like advising a calf to make a tour of
>a meatpacking plant.

Shouldn't the young calf have a clear-eyed view of its future? Or do you
prefer it to live its life in the fattening pen lost in illusions?

>As for marxism-int, if you are concerned about
>burning political issues of the day such as whether young communists
>should be concerned about sexual relationships, then you might consider
>that flame-intensive and nonsense-intensive and egocentric-intensive list.

Sex is, of course, of no interest to politics. That sexual preferences and
practices are constituted socially, and that one's sexual views color one's
political views, are hopelessly vulgar notions.

>Be warned, however. There is a self-styled Howard Stern-type snitch named
>Louis N ("Born to Lose") Proyent who will burn you to hell if you have the
>audacity to say anything that he disagrees with. Worse yet, that
>highly dogmatic, vulgar, and pretentious "Marxist" has threatened to
>report anything you say to your employer in the hope that you will be
>fired or at least "disciplined." He made that threat publicly to at least 4
>listmembers and the anti-labor snitch actually contacted the management of
>at least two individuals resulting in at least one official reprimand by
>management against a union member.

Now this is interesting. Earlier this week, your census of Proyect victims
was just two; it seems to have doubled in three days.

And what's this with a "reprimand"? Last I'd heard, in one of your
typically overwrought moments Jerry, was the possibility of reprimand. Did
you get called on the carpet yesterday afternoon?

Doug

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