File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9801, message 81


Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 18:11:15 +0100
From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: M-TH: LBO LBW??


Yo-ho-ho Thaxalites!

>Gerald Levy wrote:
>
>>Unlike the _LBO_?  It has been reported on the Net that there is a patent
>>pending on the _LBO_ as a cure for insomnia.
>>
>>At least party newspapers are relatively inexpensive compared to the
>>_LBO_.  However, they are not [generally] profit-seeking petty-bourgeois
>>ventures.
>
>And a happy new year to you Jerry!
>
>Tell us what you've written, Jerry. Any journalism? Any scholarly work?
>Anything besides this childish virtual sniping from the sidelines?
>
>Doug


At least Jerry was accurate enough to provoke a defensive whine...

Now perhaps Doug could tell us what he has *been thinking* over the past
few years -- and I don't mean flogging dead horses in the LBO or sniping
from the sidelines on the lists. From where I sit it just looks like
lugubrious neo-Stalinism mourning the passing of socialism and the victory
of omnipotent and invincible imperialism.

Perhaps Doug is a good example of what Yoshie referred to as "bad subjects"
over on M-fem? Socialized within the dominant class, but pissed off
nonetheless and constantly snapping at their ankles...

ciao4now,

Hugh


PS No true Manhattee ever lets slip a chance to blow their own trumpet!

Doug quotes soundbites on LBO (translation in brackets):

	a charm		 (good)
	NOT pseudo-science 	(NOT bad)

	salutary 		(good)
	NOT mush 		(NOT bad)
	NOT mainstream 	(presumably NOT bad -- elitist remark)

	most delectable 	(VERY yummy)
	insightful 		(good)
	in English		 (NOT Latin)

	admirably literate	(VERY good)
	stylish 		(good)
	sharply insightful 	(VERY good)

	indispensable 	(necessary!!!)

	scum 		(bad)
	sick 		(bad)
	twisted 		(bad)
	tragic 		(bad)


All very enlightening...

The one comment that might just conceivably have some content is:

	indispensable for anyone who wants to know where our economy is,
where it
	is going, and why

but this might just be a cool way of saying "NOT mainstream mush".

That "why" is interesting, though. The one thing Doug never lets on about
here on the lists is *why* the economy is where it is or *why* it's heading
the way it does. Perhaps explanations mean one thing to the bourgies and
another to Marxists.

Cheers,

Hugh

PPS I'm not saying the LBO should be banned ;-} Just imagine how useful
this kind of nose-to-the-window reporting might be if it was a) free of
neo-Stalinist pessimism and rejection of the revolutionary role of the
working class, and b) if it was consequently at the service of the
revolutionary working class on a developing and reciprocally enriching
everyday basis.

This by the way is roughly the way Lenin viewed art and artists. He wasn't
for banning them if they rubbed him up the wrong way, he just saw the
dialectical alternative and the benefits that would arise *if* they were
able to put their talents directly at the service of the party and the
revolution.




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