File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/97-04-15.135, message 52


Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:56:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Levy's dissertation?


>
>In short, the pressures of work and political activism interfered with my
>ability to complete my dissertation.
>

Louis: What a load of baloney. The reason you couldn't complete a
dissertation is the same reason you have been on the various Spoons lists
for the past 6 months without coming up with a single interesting thing to
say. Go back through the thaxis archives and you will discover two "Levy
threads":

1) You being charged with racial slurs against Juan Inigo

2) You raising a stink about being suspended from M-I, a list you were not
even subscribed to.

Meanwhile, after you joined M-I your put all your energies into an
essentially negative project: starting a flame war with "Stalinists".
Whatever else you want to say about Adolfo, he could write some sharp
commentary on Peruvian politics from time to time. You write nothing
political, just your personal obsessions which emerge from a bitterness over
the fact that you are a big zero in the academic world. If you had a little
bit more to be proud of, if, for example, you wrote interesting articles
like Alan Freeman or Bob Fitch who are also without doctorates, then you
could look at yourself in the mirror and say "what a good boy am I!"

Since you contribute nothing to the academic world and since you are not an
activist, you walk around with burning resentment. Why don't you see a
psychotherapist and try to work through some of these problems instead of
burdening the various Spoons lists with them.




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