RE: [Marxism] To Tony Abdo

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Abdo wrote:
> So to reiterate, YES, I do find the list to be a good place "simply to
> exchange ideas".    Now let me do so without threatening me.

If this is so, please do not compare it to Stakhanov in the future. For
people who are unfamiliar with Soviet history, this was a "model worker"
during the Stalin era who enjoyed material rewards for working at a
breakneck pace. Workers were put under pressure to emulate him. In the
Trotskyist movement, pressure was put on people to sell newspapers in the
same fashion but with little effect. I can say this from experience as a
Militant newspaper sales director for many years. We put sales charts on
the wall with the number of newspapers sold during a sales campaign and
most shirkers were content to see their name up there with a zero. By
contrast, open shirkers in the USSR were thrown in prison. Needless to say,
none of this has anything to do with this listserv. I can barely get people
to send posts without clipping extraneous text.


Louis Proyect
Marxism list: www.marxmail.org


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