Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 07:34:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Do Not Panic


Q: What happens when the lightbulb at a meeting of a dozen marxists goes 
     out? 

A1: What light bulb?
A2: What light?
A3: We have to decide democratically what to do next. [but I can't see 
     you? ... you can hear me, right?].
A4: What type of bulb should we use? [maybe we shouldn't use light bulbs 
    which are capitalist commodities. Perhaps we should make our own 
    revolutionary candles?].

[hours pass ... intense debate follows ... someone objects to the minutes 
for the last meeting]

A5: This is a decision that can only be made by the proletariat [what 
    about asking the Central Committee, comrade?]. 

A6: I strongly object to asking this question. Posing this question is 
    unMarxist and undialectical since everything is related to everything 
    and if we are to discuss the "lightbulb question" we can not separate 
    that question from OFPPS, literature, the agrarian question, the 
    flaming path,  the price and quality of flea collars, etc. 

A7: I move that the meeting be adjourned. The chair calls for a voice 
vote and the meeting is adjourned (amidst shouts from some demanding a 
re-count). The Marxists leave the meeting and go outside. It is a dark 
overcast pitch black night. [Good night, comrades. Good night.].

Jerry


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