Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 16:58:34 +1100
From: davidmci-AT-coombs.anu.edu.au (David McInerney)
Subject: Re: ALTHUSSER UP THE WAZOO


"Althusser up the Wazoo", eh?  Yet more (b)anal humour(?) from Ralph.

>Althusser has nothing
>at all to say about Marx's concrete intellectual development,
>unlike the painstaking work of Labica for instance, and subjects
>it to the most tortuous distortions and abstractions to make it
>fit into his arbitrary scheme.

Hmmm, my point still stands, me thinks.

All you have to do is take a gander at the sort of
>people who admire Althusser and that is enough to condemn him.

Gee, thanks Ralph.  I love you too.

>I eat theoretical anti-humanists for breakfast

What can I say but - "EAT ME, RALPH!!!!!!!"  (Oops, I took a leaf out of
your book on 'net etiqette')


>I can't wait until the last vestiges of every
>Communist Party on the planet are obliterated forever.  And I hope
>the Maoists, Trotskyists, and anarchists vanish along with them.
>Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Hmm.  I guess I was wrong to think that maybe you were opposed to Professor
Rosser and Father Burns.  You are firmly within the idealist camp!  Is
there any Marxist political organisation you DO support??  You want the
CPs, the Maoists, and the Trots (and the anarchists for good measure) to be
"obliterated forever"??  All of these have problems, but on what basis are
you going to save the rest of humanity, Ralph?  By wiping your shitty arse
on _For Marx_?  What strange bedfellows you and Peter Burns make!


Mr. David McInerney,
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
e-mail: davidmci-AT-coombs.anu.edu.au; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051




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