From owner-marxism-international  Sat Apr  5 15:34:22 1997
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 15:34:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: PANIC LEFT: TAKE THREE
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970404204523.14506C-100000@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.970405151507.21152B-100000@sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu>

On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Brian M Ganter wrote:
> the center.  One of the main moves of her text then is seperating the
> "serious" left from the "cuckoo" left (Proyect/Dubain) in order to
> reconstruct the "reasonable" center..  

Louis: What the heck are you talking about? Who is the she you are
referring to? Caroll Cox has a weewee just like me. Also he doesn't think
I am "cuckoo". He holds me in high regard, even if I do think I am cuckoo
myself. 


> the  rear guard of this group--Malecki--is now also attempting to 
> "reinvent"  history by his feigned amnesia ["perhaps I have missed
> something" he bursts out]--he, like them, caught up in the nightmare of
> history just wants to "go back" (renew and reinvent) and in doing so start
> all over again contradiction-free! 

Louis: Malecki "missed something" because he is an extraordinarily stupid
human being who, lacking in natural endowments, often confuses names,
places, dates, etc. I expect that you folks and he will eventually find
each other locked in a warm embrace because he also likes the sounds of
the words "vanguard" and "proletarian" rolling off his tongue. I do expect
him to have a little trouble with "problematize" however.


> insecurity in the presence of ideas.  It is a symptom of this
> embarrassment and the intellectual insecurity and impatience with complex
> thinking that Louis Proyect declares: "do the rest of us a favor and tell
> us exactly what you have to offer."  Of course, the very same person who

Louis: I still have no idea of what makes you so special. Is there
something about the notion that a TV commentator has fascist sympathies so
special? The liberal watchdog group in NYC called Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR) does this with much greater clarity and intelligence than
your guru professor does.  The sorts of questions I am interested in are:

1) Lenin in context
2) The Nicaraguan and Cuban revolutions
3) Computers and Socialism
4) The Red-Green synthesis
5) Market socialism and participatory planning as utopian socialisms
6) Analytical Marxism vs classical Marxism
7) The nature of fascism and its new forms
8) Humanitarian military interventions

All of my writings on these subjects are on the Marxism Web and reflect my
commitment to Marxism. I have no idea what you stand for other than empty
phrase-mongering.



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