Re: [Marxism] Weather Underground

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Craven, Jim" wrote:
>

> Response Jim C:  From The narcissistic, immediate-gratificationist and 
> infantile
> pseudo-leftism of the Weather underground and their deadly theatrical stunts 
> in the
> 60s, to the relatively insulated and protected market niches of tenured 
> Marxianism in
> academia is no long leap at all; they both serve rather than seriously 
> challenge the
> established order.

I agree with the general judgment of Weatherman politics expressed here.
In fact I've declared on various mailists over the years that I only
bear two grudges from the '60s, one against a certain  ISU Dean of the
Faculty, the other against the Weathermen, and for the objective reasons
Jim C. gives.

But frankly, if anything could make me sympathetic to the WEathermen, it
would be such blustering and empty rhetoric (focusing on motive) as Jim
C uses here. If I had never heard of Jim C before, and knew nothing
about him, and then read this post, my response would come close to
being, "Oh Shit, another verbal Weatherman."

His nasty tone and exercise in mental telepathy in analyzing the
Weatherman motives is _precisely_ the tone that drove me up the wall in
disputes with weathermen 35 years ago. Grow up Jim. You have so much to
say. Why spoil it with these childish temper tantrums.

Carrol

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