Insults

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Craven, Jim wrote:

> special-interest reductionism. Further, when some of those "Green groups"
> such as the Watson types ally themselves with known fascists, under the
> familiar banner of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend or at least tactical
> ally", can be truly and sincerely "Green" and wind up actually supporting
> forces destroying "Greenness" (what happened to the environment and many
> non-human species under Hitler?) in addition to being racist, anti-Semitic
> and fascist who destroy certain humans as well.

(Ahem). Folks, might I remind everyone on the list that just because we
occasionally disagree with one another, this is not a license to call each
other racist/fascist/Nazi pond scum. If we're serious about engaging with
the ideas of Marx and carrying on the tradition of Marxist resistance, we
have to stop doing to each other what the total system *wants* us to do --
namely, stomp each other in a mad struggle for individual market share. I
myself have developed the hide of a rhinosceros, but there are lots of
people out there whose only contact with Marxism is going to be chatting
with someone on a listserv, and this kind of open symbolic violence
(which, incidentally, has a disturbingly patriarchal bent to it: men
beating on their chests, etc.) totally alienates them. I'd like to hear
more about the positive bridges being built between the enviros and
indigenous/4th world/NGO folks, myself.

-- Dennis