Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 02:41:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Willingness to listen


On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Charlotte Kates wrote:

>         In the face of accusations that Adolfo Olaechea does not contribute
> productively to the list, or request that party issues not be discussed, and
> party statements not issued here, I must say this--Olaechea is a real
> revolutionary. He wants to see socialism-in Peru, all over the world. This

Louis: I agree totally with this. Olaechea is a revolutionary and we have 
to hear him out. Period.

A week or two ago I was up at the Monthly Review office and told somebody 
that I was in a flame war with PCP supporters. He suggested that not 
enough information was available to either condemn them or support them 
without qualification. He argued for a more open-minded approach.

Then I noticed a letter in the New Flag publication from somebody who I 
know from the Nicaragua Network in NY. They put out a very fine 
newsletter on Latin America. She told New Flag in this letter that they 
were grateful for some of the information on Peru that had become 
available through New Flag since the bourgeois media contained so many lies.

After hearing this, I decided that it was time for me to cut out the 
flame wars and listen carefully to what the PCP supporters had to say.

Now this does not mean that I am going to buy in to the whole 
song-and-dance on Stalin, but I don't think any PCP supporter expects me to.


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