RE: [Marxism] Genocide and intentionality

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

I don't think your comparison (SWP/academia) is valid. The SWP/Militant is
insignificant and irrelevant. Unfortunately, or fortunately in some cases,
academics and academic discourse have wider repercussions within "public
opinion," and should be dissected and answered.

Mike

At 09:52 AM 2/13/2005, you wrote:
> Message: 13
> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:31:05 -0500
> From: "Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [Marxism] Genocide and intentionality
> To: "'Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition'"
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> Cc: ralphluker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Louis,
>
> I understand your objections to the tendency of some on the list to
> address the latest SWP or MILITANT news, though I probably see more
> merit to it than you do.
>
> However, by comparison, I see absolutely no point to these polemical
> exchanges with academic pseudo-progressive neo-libs.  Unlike the SWP,
> they're not trying to build a group.  In fact, I don't see how anyone
> not a member of the club sees them as anything other than
> run-of-the-mill Democrat.
>
> I also think that it misses the point to try to debate the content of
> Churchill's arguments with them.  Any academic who won't defend academic
> freedom demonstrates the utter worthlessness of their so-called thought
> processes.
>
> Solidarity!
> Mark L.
>
> "All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the
> treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a
> Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio
> or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. ... If
> destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher."
>      ---- Abraham Lincoln, January 27, 1838


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