Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:47:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Jaszewski <jjazz-AT-freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
Subject: Re: 100 Years of (Mis)Understanding



On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 ROSSERJB-AT-vax1.acs.jmu.edu wrote:

>      Finland's economy took a dive when the USSR collapsed
> but is now growing again pretty well.  I do not see what is
> so "superficial" about such things as the status of women,
> the lack of political prisoners, the low rate of poverty, etc.

	God, you come across so bourgeois... I won't even answer you on
the latter `points'.  Yes, there's money to be made from carpet-bagging
(if not carpet-bombing) the ex-CCCP...


> I am not aware that Finland is some big exploiter of LDCs,
> but then I guess that just shows that I don't "get the Big
> Picture."  Shame on me.

	Hey -- you said it...


>      So, who are you, a reverse Joe McCarthy?  I was not aware
> that "being a Marxist" was a prerequisite of being on this list,

	Frankly, I often wish it was.


> in fact I know that the co-mod(s?) would like to have some non-Ms
> around just for fun, despite the loudly expressed desires of some
> people on this list that anybody they don't agree with should go 
> away ("this is our little club, so leave us alone").

	You remind me of the bourgeois mass-media baying at some poor
little rag about `allowing' freedom of speech' -- while they practice it
-- NOT -- par excellence. 


>      I used to call myself a Marxist but stopped doing so because
> so many people who did so were such blazing hypocritical idiots.

	Have anyone in mind?


> I still take Marx very seriously and as has been observed have not
> "thrown him out," although I do not treat him as infallible and
> indeed think he was wrong about a number of things.  I generally
> eschew "labels," and none really fit, although lots of people wish
> to stick me in one or another pet category of theirs so that they can
> "rule out" my annoying arguments without thinking about them seriously.  
> Good luck trying, Jazz.

	You know -- funny thing about guys who talk like you: they often 
end up going over to the reaction...

	Just a thought...



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