RE: [Marxism] Joseph Weydemeyer and the Roswell Crash

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles,

You cite as a national party that pursued a "party line" during the
Civil War a Communist Club in NYC in 1857-58.  The club had Marxists in
it, but it also had non-Marxists.  Many of the German labor groups at
the time were actually former affiliates of Wilhelm Weitling's
ARBEITERBUND.  (Read Levine, Foner, etc., etc., etc.--or my own article
on the subject in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF U.S. LABOR AND WORKING CLASS
HISTORY.)

Again, you change subjects and pretend not to read what I've written.
You suggested that the US military was more likely to get the Anaconda
strategy because they were familiar with Engels from an article in an
encyclopedia because it had "American" in the title.  I suggested that
they probably had lots of better sources for a military education than
an encyclopedia.  You twist that into an assertion by me that they were
more likely to read foreign tracts than American ones.   This is truly
mental dyslexia....

You say that Weydemeyer waged a successful campaign against the
guerillas in Missouri.  When I questioned this, you could have only
begun to answer this question by discussing how Weydemeyer was fighting
guerillas.  Indeed, if you were an ordinarily dishonest person, you
might have tried to fudge it by discussing a fight between Weydemeyer
and Confederate regulars...or maybe a fight between Union soldiers other
than Weydemeyer and Conederate guerillas.

Instead, you misrepresent me as saying there were no Confederate
gueillas in Missouri and give us a paragraph on the battle with
Confederate regualars in which Weydemeyer did not participate.  That's
what I mean when I say that you take dishonesty to surreal heights...and
then jump off flapping your arms....

The reason I object to this stuff so much, Charles, is that many good
people have invested years, decades and lifetimes of serious work in
figuring these things out.  Not the least of these was your former
comrade Phil Foner.

And what you do basically treat their hard-won achievements as unworthy
of your consideration.

Solidarity!
Mark L.




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