From owner-marxism-international  Wed Apr 23 00:08:58 1997
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:08:36 -0400
Message-Id: <199704230408.AAA30890@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
From: malecki@algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-I: PANIC LEFTIST - FRAME EIGHTEEN

RMC wrote:
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>Gerald Levy who at first seemed to be seriously interested in a
>re-theorization of "question" and its relation to power and the matter of
>"fascism", has now trivialized the entire issue by resorting to the
>strategies of tabloid journalism. A strategy that has made (as he had
>calculated) his trivilization of our theoretical task a rallying point (as
>if more was needed) around which the retrograde elements on the net-left
>can re-consolidate its attempt to drive us off the list. 

I think Jerry's stuff was basically good on you! And now you have somebody 
else to add to you list. I have never seen anything like the indignation 
number you people are pulling on just about everybody who asks or writes 
about the RMC. You are beginning to sound a bit in the need of Prozac or 
something.

In a recent letter I said the following about these characters:

"Perhaps not. I think their is a real possibility that these characters
represent some sort of bizaar kind of middle class petty bougeois hysteria
on the left who realize that the real possibilities of *real* fascist
solutions to the present crisis might just be on the horizon and by
screaming "fascist" fascist" at everybody show how unstable these elements
really can be. It would not surprise me that these kind of petty bougeois
intellectuals who are abusing these characterizations could wind up with
positions in a future Nazi goverment somewhere. Basically because they can
not tell the difference between the left on Internet and real Nazi's."

and

"But it could allso go the other way and then these kind of petty bougeois
intellectuals could become the stanch supporters of a new Bonapartist
Stalinist solution. They are very unstable and need a strong leader who
they can follow. As to which side they are on it obviously makes no
difference for them because they can not even tell the difference between a
real fascism and "left" fascism. "

But this does not mean that the RMC crowd are Nazi's YET!

I do not particulally like your idiotic characterization of calling 
everybody "fascist" of some sort of the other. But name calling even in the 
context that you wackos bring it up is certainly NO excuse from the 
moderaters for a WARNING!

Malecki and Cockroach oppose any kind of warning or threats to the RMC crowd 
>from the moderaters of being thrown off M-I. Nothing they have written so 
far deserves such a ridiculous move by the moderaters. Have the moderaters 
because of the pressure's lately flipped out? Calm down (!) the RMC with 
their writting have committed no crime. Except perhaps not once opening 
their mouths about the creation of the new rule to gag the free flow of 
information. So much for this crowd that has so much to say around this kind 
of stuff and the left-but not one fucking word about a *real* rule just 
ridiculous soap bubbles which nobody at this point really understands. 
Except perhaps there new found pal Louis Proyect. 

So in DEEDS! the RMC have done nothing either way. To help things or harm 
things.

So once again I oppose the ridiculous WARNING to the RMC crowd.

Bob Malecki
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