From owner-marxism-international  Mon Apr 21 15:03:05 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:02:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart@mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: who's a fascist?
In-Reply-To: <l03102809af815bcad4f3@[166.84.250.86]>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970421142411.6409A-100000@gamera.syr.edu>



On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:

> Gerald Levy wrote:
> 
> >d) pet owners, as well, are fascists.
> 
> I tried to get our cats to wear jackboots, but they refused.
> 
> Jerry's absolutely right on this issue; the Buffalo school has a
> preposterously vague and inclusive definition of fascism. What it comes
> down to is that anyone who doesn't agree with them is a fascist.
> 
> Lou Proyect pointed out the miraculous unity the Buffalo school has
> prompted on M-I. This may be the first time I'm posting in enthusiastic
> support of something Jerry Levy said. Other, stranger alliances have been
> made. Maybe this is a good portent for Marxism in the late 1990s. Stick
> around, unpanicked; you're the best thing to happen to red solidarity in
> ages.
> 
> 
> Doug
> 


So the great revolutionaries of M-I have ganged up together to beat up
on some kids (who are easy to beat) from the RMC in Buffalo. What a
significant accomplishment of "red solidarity" which includes along
with good people like Doug Henwood, Louis Proyect also the likes of
Rodwell, Malecki, Levy, Austin and others. The Lord knows, they should
congratulate themselves on this final accomplishment of the "united
front" (especially after the departure of the "Stalinists") against
the RMC instead of against the main capitalist or fascist enemy (the
function of the united front according to Dimitrov). 

So let the toasts flow merrily for now on this (unprincipled) "united
front", for the united front will melt like ice cream after the RMC  has
been vanquished. The true antagonisms will once again reveal thremselves
like rocks under a temporary fluff of snow. In the heat of the coming
class battles, I for one would not trust certain members of this
united front to be behind my back (unless like an octopus or a fly I
manage to get 360 degree vision) for the fear of receiving a "stray"
bullet in the back.

Before the celebration reaches further heights of euphoria, perhaps the
celebrants ought to pause and (re-) read Chairman Mao-Tse Tung's
distinction between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions.

S. Chatterjee    

    



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