Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 18:18:36 +0100 From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> Subject: M-TH: Re: Waterman vs history Here's Waterman's global retreat from this exchange, more's the pity. So much for serious historical argument from "libertarian Marxists", out of the discussion before it gets off the ground. Note the completely vague reference to "lifeless categories", too -- for safety's sake without a single concrete example. Anyway, as someone once said, you can ignore history, but history won't ignore you. Cheers, Hugh ___________________ Hugh Rodwell is certainly right that the rhetorical strategy of irony assumes an audience in sympathy with the author... I think he may be wrong in his assumption that the effective tool against it is the rhetorical strategy of finger-wagging political correctness. I would have thought it should be, maybe, an ironic response. Rather than continuing to block out useful information and new ideas with what might be called `red-out' (boring the pants off real human beings with a spectral dance of lifeless categories - and taking the piss out of such), I now declare my retirement. The score is, therefore, History (According to Hugh) 1: Waterman 0. Anyone wishing to take the piss out of me can find some of my actually-existing arguments on my so-far experimental website, Global Solidarity. Feel free. I am already receiving fully-deserved hate-mail for having provoked this dialogue of the deaf. Mea culpa, mea culpa. The flesh was willing but the spirit (trained in the school of stalinist falsifiers) was weak. I sentence myself to the death of a thousand silences. Well, two or three.. pw `Communication is the nervous system of internationalism and solidarity' (Jose Carlos Mariategui, Lima, c.1923) Institute of Social Studies, Jacob v.d. Doestr. 28 POB 29776 2518XN The Hague 2502LT The Hague Netherlands. Netherlands Tel: +31-70-4260-579, Tel: +31-70-363-1539 Fax: +4260-799. [answering machine] Emb: waterman-AT-iss.nl. waterman-AT-antenna.nl And the Global Solidarity website: http://www.antenna.nl/~waterman/ --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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