From: "Bob Malecki" <malecki-AT-mail.bip.net>
Subject: SV: M-TH: Outsiders Trope
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 06:08:29 +0100



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Från: LeoCasey <LeoCasey-AT-aol.com>
Till: marxism-thaxis-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
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Datum: den 16 mars 1998 23:53
Ämne: M-TH: Outsiders Trope


>In a message dated 98-03-16 10:09:36 EST, Russ writes:
>
><< And note the trope of 'from outside', the usual rejoinder of the media:
> eg."the peaceful demonstration was upset by trouble-makers from from
> outside..." >>
>
>Of course, Butler is talking of something far broader, but if you want to
>identify as the central trope in a discussion of sectarianism the intrusion
of
>"outsiders" in a demonstration, you will find that everyone but the most
die-
>hard sectarian has very unpleasant memories of organizing broad-based
>demonstrations around this or that issue, only to have a contingent of
Sparts
>or similar-minded types demand the "democratic right" to raise their banner
>"Only the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Will End (...AIDS, etc.)" at its
>head. As a trope for folks who have done nitty-gritty organizing, and dealt
>with rabid sectarianism, it is a pretty powerful image.
>
>Leo


Leo is foaming from the mouth again. Is this the new left expression of
social fascism?

Warm regards
Bob Malecki




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