Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 08:22:42 -0400
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: Factional warfare victorious


At 8:33 PM 3/28/96, Louis N Proyect wrote:

>Louis: Adolfo is correct. He has won a victory. I am going directly to
>the list with my assessment of the situation.
>
>Hans Ebhar, a professor at Utah, and Jon Beasley-Murray, a graduate
>student at Duke University have a solution to the problem. They have
>persuaded Lisa that a new list be created. This list will be called
>something like "Philosophical Marxism" or some such thing. The notion is
>that polite discussion of literature, anthropology, history, economics,
>etc. take place without the bothersome presence of "vanguard" parties.
>The idea is that the Marxism list will be turned over to Adolfo and his
>fellow warriors.

If this is accurate, and I trust Lou to be accurate, then this sucks
bigtime. The maniacs have won - though if this is a great victory, as the
maniac-in-chief put it, they must be battling on a very small field these
days. This splitting of the lists will split theory and praxis, and reduce
praxis to the ranting of lunatics. This list once joined academics and
worker-intellectuals; now it's fallen apart. A great victory indeed.

The new issue of Workers Vanguard continues its interesting series on
anarchism and Marxism. As I read the following I thought of the AO crowd:
"It is no wonder that Bakunin is hailed by contemporary anarchists...as a
'prophet' of the Maoist and Guevarist conception of 'an alliance of
estranged intellectuals with the dispossessed masses in guerrilla-style
warfare...." This peasant-based guerrillaism led at best to the creation of
bureaucratically deformed worker state in economically isolated and
backward countries like China, Vietnam and Cuba."

Doug

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