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! --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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