Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:28:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
To: CEP <iwp.ilo-AT-ix.netcom.com>
cc: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Critique of Trotskyism


On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, CEP wrote:

>     Carlos:
> 
>     Louis, calm down!.  Are you the "general Marxist public" all by
>     yourself? or are you developing a Napoleon's complex?  C'mon,
>     let people discuss what they want.  You don't like it, ignore it.
>     But stop whinning! You are only complicating things unnecessary.

Louis: Look, Mr. "Shiny Shit", you are the mirror image of the PCP 
supporters in terms of your tendency to use the most inflammatory 
language that you pops into your head. You go ahead and discuss whatever you 
want. It just should be clear that 3 people dropped out of the list while 
you were conducting your flame wars with the Maoists. You are opening up 
this can of worms all over again.

This will cause more people to drop out of the list and you will have 
been successful in turning this mailing list into the type of Augean 
stable that APST is. When I catch a wiff of Stalin-Trotsky wars between 
true believers, I want to scream. Most people who are not committed to 
these types of politics find it totally obnoxious to hear a Trotskyist 
defending Trotsky's reputation against a Maoist defending Stalin's 
reputation.

The fact that this can preoccupy Marxists in 1996 is a sure sign of the 
dead weight of dogma that still exists and that we have to move beyond.


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