Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 17:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Proyect, leaving "unity" list?


On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Hugh Rodwell wrote:

> 
> 1) You don't want unity.
> 


Louis: You mean joining the Moreno cult? No thanks. One cult in one
lifetime is all somebody should have to bear.


> 2) You hate opposition. (Ralph D could wise you up with some Blake:
> 'Opposition is true friendship')


Louis: Opposition. I love arguing with intelligent Trotskyists like Adam
Rose and Jim Miller. It is too bad that Malecki is a drooling moron and
you are a total ignoramus about the subjects near and dear to me:
Cuba and Nicaragua. (By the way, I heard that there is a book called "Cuba
for Beginners" by Rius that has plenty of pictures. You might want to
supplement your assiduous research into Cambridge history books with a
peek at that. It might do you good to read a left publication now and
then.)


> 
> 3) You love position and decorations (bet the Advisory Panel bit is already
> on your CV!). Why don't you admit you're a closet freemason?
> 


Louis: I don't love all positions. I actually find the missionary position
quite boring.


> 
> Good for him! If suspension is to be used for keeping a list on the tracks
> (and in a list set up that way from the start I suppose it would be) then
> this was a necessary move. Didn't Malgosia react at all, though?
> 
> 

Louis: He threatened to suspend me 24 hours after I had quit the sinkhole.
I would have demanded public caning a la Singapore rather than spending
another minute in a padded cell with the likes of you, LCRMI, PO, XFR,
ZQCP, etc.



> >How dare he slander
> >me in that fashion.
> 
> Me,  me, me, eh, Louis? You auditioning for a part on Absolutely Fabulous?
> A bit of radical New York chic Patsy picked up on her American tour of
> duty?
> 


Louis: Uh, that was a joke, Hugh old toad.


> 4) Your attitude to people dumped in the gutter by the system is loathsome.
> You are the kind of surface phenomenon that provides grist to the mill of
> the MIMs and their superficial analysis of class forces in imperialist
> countries.
> 

Louis: Yeah, at least I don't put Jim Crow dialect into the mouths of
African-Americans. As far as being an effete snob, I plead guilty. I just
told my manservant Bixley to bring me a Vodka Martini and the Financial
Times, and then draw the water for my bath. Toodle-oo, old Toad.



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