Re: Rechurned Ideas of 1980s Serbian Intelligentsia

[Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou: "I will throw more people off who can't calmly
     accept posts that they disagree with."

   Personally, I would love to see a wider range of
views on the list, for example on such sectarianly
forbidden topics as postmodernity.  But, Lou, really,
none of your regular contributors "calmly accepts
posts they disagree with."

Michael Davidson

--- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There are actually many more incidents throughout
> like the examples above;
> >but the character of this article is that of
> chauvinist and even racist
> >filth. I am not quite sure why Louis found it
> necessary to post this to a
> >Marxist list. I believe there would rightly have
> been an outcry against a
> >Turkish nationalist diatribe against Kurds, or an
> English nationalist
> >diatribe against the Irish.
>
> I posted it because she sent it to the Marxism list
> and because she works
> with Jared Israel, who is a subscriber here and who
> is responsible for the
> extremely valuable Emperor's Clothes website. My
> suggestion to Owen is that
> if he finds this kind of post so offensive, he
> should unsubscribe because
> clearly I have no intention of banning it. The
> Internet is a very wide-open
> place. There are now something like a dozen
> different Marxism mailing lists
> and numerous leftwing newsgroups. If subscribers to
> this list feel that I
> don't have the editorial good sense to proscribe
> material like the kind
> that Owen feels is beyond the pale, I invite them to
> set up a mailing list
> on Egroups where such material will be excluded at
> the outset. I threw a
> British Serbophobe off the list a couple of months
> ago because he wanted to
> start a flame war over pro-Serb material. Then only
> two weeks ago I threw
> Tony Abdo--his opposite number--off the list because
> he was only interested
> in flame wars with people like Owen, John Lacny and
> the DSP. If necessary,
> I will throw more people off who can't calmly accept
> posts that they
> disagree with.
>
> Louis Proyect
>
> (The Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org)
>
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com