[Marxism] Moderator's note

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, what I often find lacking on Marxmail is a mature humanism that
transcends petty vendettas and games of one-upmanship, and tackles topics in
a profound, dispassionate and erudite way, befitting the breadth of vision,
creativity and promise of Marx's intellectual legacy. Thankfully there are
also excellent posts by Yoshie, Les, Louis, Einde, Ed and so on, that breeze
away the political farts of the more puberal contributors.

Yes, you can slag off at Michael Moore or Karl Radek or anybody else. But do
you truly know anything about what they went through in their lives, and
what they achieved? Could you do better than they did? Have you really
learnt anything from what they accomplished? I doubt that.

This so-called "Marxism" and its innuendo's don't progress beyond the stage
Marx had reached when he wrote "The Holy Family", and frequently regresses
to the banale platitudes of Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical
Materialism". How does this help the cause of socialism?

C'mon guys. We can do better than that!

Jurriaan



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