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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 23:00:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Kenny Mostern <kennym-AT-uclink2.berkeley.edu>
Subject: What I expect, minimally, from this list


I am the person who asked Philip Goldstein to not participate in the 
list, by private e-mail.  I did not tell him to go away because he 
defended Laclau and Mouffe, as he claimed; I told him to go away because 
he dismissed marxism as such.  I asked him what he expected from a bunch 
of marxists upon doing such a thing.

Personally I have no big issue with flames one way or another, neither 
respecting them nor vilifying them. 

I had a very specific reason for being glad that Dumain flamed Goldstein, 
though of course it could perhaps have been done better.  That is, 
Goldstein's post said that marxism was, in effect, solidly on the side of 
evil in the world.  He totalized marxism, turned it into Stalin's 
government, which it most certainly is not.  Frankly Stalinist discourse 
isn't Stalinist government, and I'm not for the former any more than I'm 
for the latter.

This list is for the discussion of marxism.  Anyone who does not think 
there is something valuable to discuss, who thinks that marxism is 
something to denounce as a whole, shouldn't be here.  Out of respect for 
those of us who are marxists, and out of self-respect.  

I'm just speaking for myself.  I don't require politeness, in particular, 
nor do I require depth of knowledge of the subject, nor do I require any 
particular line.  I ask, minimally, that everyone here has a positive 
interest in marxism.  I reserve the right to flame anyone who insists on 
posting who can't meet that minimal requirement.

Kenny Mostern
UC-Berkeley Ethnic Studies Graduate Group

Against:  racism, sexism, homophobia, capitalism, militarism
For:  the truth--and the funk!



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