Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:51:15 -0500
From: Charlotte Kates <ckates-AT-mosquito.com>
Subject: Re: SocNet censorship!


At 10:20 AM 3/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Charlotte Kates wrote:
>
>> I was recently informed that "SocNet is going to ban all posts
>> that show support for PCP,and all Maoists,people that support
>> any party they consider Stalinist,basically anyone that disagrees
>> with the SPUSA -DSA party line." This is a dangerous trend that must be
>> fought. Show your protest against censorship by mailing protests to
>> <SocNet-AT-world.std.com> 
>> To defeat this insidious plan, we must act now! 
>
>	This comes as a response to the quasi-pornographic behavior of
>Sendi. SocNet is not going to ban all people who show support for the PCP,
>but rather will ban people who insist on behaving in a similar harrasing
>manner as Elsequin or Sendi. 
>
>	Their first of all is not an SPUSA-DSA party line, nor does the
>SPUSA share the same politics as the DSA. Nor is banning a troll a
>"insidious plan" 
>

Would you all like to see the "elsequin-style" quasi-pornography? Because I
think I'll post it. It needs to be posted. Here goes:
>"Harrington the Revisionist"

>   Someone mentioned Michael Harringtons,
>The  Twilight of Capitalism,(and lets not forget 
>his other turgid tome -Socialism)
> 
>  The Twilight of Capitalism.A better title would
>have been,Marxism For The Mentally Challenged,
>or-Tame Socialism for the Politically Timid.
>Predigested Marxism for the masses.
>
>  Harringtons bastardized revisionist version
>of Marxism.It stands as nothing more than
>a failed attempt to make Marxism palpable
>for the tame lap dog social democrats,who
>lacked the courage for any type of militant
>radical social action.
> 
> Harrington could never admit how much he shared in
>common with his fellow revisionist Trotsky.
>
> The Twilight of Capitalism-spare me,Marx
>must be spinning in his grave in Highgate.
>
>                                                          Sendi.

Yeah...such a troll. Not! This si standard fare on the M-list. More: 
> This list is a perfect example of the ineffectual,
>weak,mealy mouthed ,left. A- SOCIALIST left
>that has less and less mass appeal.A left that
>is fragmented and agrees on nothing.A left reduced
>to waiting for scraps from the Democratic party.A 
>socialist left which the Democratic party considers
>nothing more than a distant bastard child,or a bunch
>of has been political prostitutes.
>
> The SPUSA- a collection of weak kneed left over
>sixties radicals -turned middle aged yuppies-that
>sees membership in the SPUSA as holding onto
>past radicalism.When in fact they are politically
>and morally bankrupt.Nothing more than drawing
>room socialists,-that consider Marx a dirty word.
>Example: the posts about Mary(what's her face)
>Hollis-one more of these and I am going to puke.
>
>  The DSA,- a collection of pseuo intellectual
>morons-capeable of nothing more than minor
>feats of mental mastrabation.Without even the
>basic grasp of Marxism.This pathetic group is
>going to lead anyone anywhere -dream on.
>
>  At least the CPUSA isn't afraid to take a militant
>stance.They don't hide their Marxist Leninsist politics
>They aren't afraid of the words -CLASS STRUGGLE-
>CLASS WARFARE.
> 
> The SPUSA-DSA can't lead,so shut the hell up
>and get out of the way.
> 
>                                              Sendi.
>

Aren't you all so offended by this pornigraphy? Kevin, it is censorship.
Think about it --"Democratic" socialist censorship. So much for your haughty
"democracy" from which you look down at the CPUSA, huh? Charlotte



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