Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 15:26:47 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Buffalo Revolutionaries


Ralph Dumain wrote:

>>RE wacko post to which you refer: sounds like the problem is not with the
 conference, but with the ultraleft psychos who criticize it.  The
 Alternative Orasnge people out of Syracuse, though I believe nominally
 Trotskyist, are Stalinist to the core in how they treat their subject matter
 and their students.  Sad to say, Stalinism also has a long pedigree in
Buffalo.<<
 
Brad: And where are your "facts" to back up these allegations.  As a reader
of both the Alternative Orange, and the work of the Marxist professors at
Syracuse (Mainly Donald Morton and Mas'ud Zavarzadeh who also edit the
journal Trasformation with Teresa Ebert) I find your characterization of them
as "psycho" and "Stalinst" to be completely out of line.  You need to back up
what seem to be personal problems with some kind of actual argument.  I
suggest that other list members check into the work being done by these
individuals and judge for themselves.  I for one find the work very effective
and productive in its rigor, logic, and revolutionary content.  I myself will
back up this claim once you (Mr. Dumain) have supplied me with something I
can actually critique.

In Solidarity.
Brad Rothrock



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