From: Braderr-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 16:57:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Buffalo Revolutionaries


Louis Proyect wrote:

>> Wait a second. Ralph Dumain is *definitely* from Buffalo. That much
is true. He was a well known African-American activist with a thriving
mortuary business in the 1950s. He was sponsor of the now defunct Buffalo
Simbas, a first-class football team in a black semi-professional league.
You could always spot Ralph in the stands 2 or 3 rows behind the team,
with a hot-dog with everything on it in one hand and a tome by Hegel in
the other.<<

Brad:I don't doubt that Mr. Dumain is from Buffalo, and I was not attacking
his credentials as a leftist.  I was referring to his specific remarks that
the work being turned out by some Marxist professors at Syracuse is "psycho"
(also implying an individual personality trait), and that they furthermore
have ties to Stalinism (in whatever way).  I am simply looking for a critique
of Syracuse and the Alternative Orange from Mr. Dumain based on something
other than his "opinion."  Since myself  and others find the work in question
to be valuable, revolutionary, effective, and even ground breaking vis-a-vis
Marxist theory in the bourgeois academy, I think Mr. Dumain's (potential)
critique might lead to some productive discourse.  I meant my request in a
comraderly way, and not as an attack on any "individual."  I'm sorry if it
was misunderstood as such.

In Solidarity,
Brad Rothrock


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