Re: Parting words on Leo Panitch and company

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> Right. Let's get to substance. I want *better* and more comradely
criticism
> of Leo (and the day after seeing Lou in April, I met Leo and Sam in
Toronto
> and haven't stopped fighting with them on interpretations of the
> contemporary global capitalist crisis since).

OK. But this requires a lit bit "evidence" right? Nobody here took Lou's
criticism as an insult except you. Where is the uncomradely criticism? Lou
based his argument on what Leo "actually" said during the interview. This is
not a hear say or supposition. What is uncomradely is to attack people
without referring what he or she said, or tell people to shut up. Lou's
exchange is in the archives.

>Because, in these obviously
> useless academic circuits, Leo is one of the world's most serious scholars
> of the class struggle writ large. I think Lou was dead wrong, as his own
> rebuttal to Leo indicates.

When was the last time Leo was involved in "class struggle"? I really want
to clear the record on this, since his students' impressions are the
opposite.

>trying to sell copies to low-income
>worker-intellectuals and host events once every couple of years,

Good. Does socialist register target working class intellectuals? I thought
it was written for a certain academic milieu .. but none the less..

> Ok, keep firing! But this has gotten silly as it is, so I'll buy you the
> beers, Mine, and hear your latest on finance capital if you want to take
up
> a two-year old offlist discussion.

Thanks for the beer, Pat. Let me buy you the beers. My dissertation is about
the political economy of U.S. international finance, not South Africa or
global justice movements. I have people in my committe who have grasp of the
issues. It is not also advisable for graduates to share their topics with
people outside of their field. Thanks again.

And good luck in York...:-)


Cheers, Mine