Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 23:38:43 -0400
Subject: Little Hughy's Meat and Potatoes


In a message dated 96-07-30 21:12:00 EDT, Little Red Hughy writes:

<< Leo writes a lot of anti-Marxist drivel>>

Why, of course, any suggestion that one might examine the Marxian tradition
with anything resembling a critical spirit -- let us say, in the spirit of
"the ruthless criticism of all existing things" -- must be anti-Marxist
drivel.

<< If Leo thinks the list response is 'jumping all over' somebody, he's got a
 strange idea of 'jumping all over' (and a very short memory). His own
 gratuitous slurring of Doug H is a much better example of 'jumping all
 over', but perhaps he thinks this is necessary, Doug H preferring m1 and
 all that.>>
 
I could care less where and how he gets his jollies, and I haven't paid the
slightest attention to the dearly departed of M1 since they decided to engage
in the pleasures of sanitorium discourse. If you and he love M1 so much, wank
away over there. My "slurs" were references to his usual practice of gracing
us with the cyber equivalent of his spittum.

<<And there ain't no such animal as 'the Marxian project'.
 
 *Marx* had a project -- helping society move from the historically spent
 capitalist mode of production to the collectively owned and cooperatively
 managed socialist mode of production, the preconditions for which had been
 put in place by the development of capitalism. The main instrument of this
 transformation he saw in an international, proletarian, revolutionary
 socialist party.
 
 But Marxists vary from complete support for this line to complete
 opposition to it, depending on their degree of orthodoxy.>>
 
 Gee. Thanks for the insight. It's so deep, I have too rethink everything. 



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