Re: clarification

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

>You're right. The archives are read by people all over the world. Last
>month I paid for 545 million bytes of transfer from the web pages alone.
>All over the world right now there are people who know you as the guy who
>invoked Karl Marx as implicitly pro-NAFTA. Here's your chance to set them
>straight.

You know, Lou, life is a lot more complicated than just being "for"
or "against" something. Taking Butler seriously doesn't make you an
anti-Marxist. Applying Marx's 1848 speech on free trade to NAFTA
doesn't make you an anti-Marxist. Listening to women workers tell you
that they find something positive about their new employment - mixed
in with lots of negatives, which are quite clearly rendered in
Nathan's article (the real article, not the phantasmic one you keep
citing) - doesn't make you an apologist for imperialism.

Doug