BHA: Re: Leninism

["Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:52:25 -0500 (EST), Ruth Groff wrote:
>Andrew!  Give it up!  There has GOT to be a list where you can have a good
>fight about the merits or lack thereof of Leninism.  Bhaskar doesn't really
>write much about Lenin.  Hume; logical positivism; Hegel even; now God.  But
>not really a lot about Lenin.  Not even much about Marx, for that matter.

Exactly. Bhaskar rarely mentions Lenin. Then why do people defend Lenin
so vigorously on this list?

Something should be said about the Ralph Dumain incident of November
1997. At that time, Ralph Dumain engaged in several extremely serious
personal attacks, used profanity, denied CR validity, and was
non-responsive to entreaties to become more responsible. Gary
considered leaving the list. Hans Despain set Ralph Dumain's
subscription to "nopost," meaning he could receive bhaskar e-mail, but
could not post. The incident was basically resolved at that time. I
think it was proper to kick Dumain off the list for his antics. (If
people want the posts from that time, I can forward them to you.) It's
important to note that my style of criticism in no way resembles Ralph
Dumain's.

I am not interested in discussing Leninist ideology any further on this
list. If anyone wants to read a longer critique of Leninism, I have a
copy of the (notorious) Doug Henwood paper, which I can forward.


>Is there anything else in Bhaskar's work that interests you?

Yes. Thanks, Ruth Groff and others, for posting all the material on
DPF. I'm still reading through it.

Andrew Hagen
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