[Marxism] DISILLUSIONED WITH MARXMAILers!

[james dwyer <jimthecelt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly, I am disillusioned with Marxmail, although I won't un-subscribe as 
there are a few, a VERY few, respondents who are worth reading (Louis Proyect, 
Walter Lippmann, and a few others) and whose insights I value highly and agree 
with mostly.  
  Most postings/messages seem to be nothing more then spam and ideological 
hairsplitting (the curse of the American Left), so typical of American 
Marxists, who'd rather trade insults and issue pointless screeds than get off 
of their rhetorical asses and penetrate the capitalist system and try to 
destroy it, as Leftists did in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, when America had a true 
Left, and as a few of my friends are doing now.
  It reminds me of college thirty years ago, where I saw so much energy wasted 
on overturning one another's leaflet tables, Trotskyites vs. Maoists vs. 
Leninists vs. whomever!  Meanwhile, capitalism's murder-machine munches and 
burps, and people here and abroad literally die.
  I look at Turkey, my daughter's homeland, where, every May 1, Leftists take 
to the streets in Istanbul and Ankara to protest and are brutally beaten by the 
police, sometimes killed.  I can send you the YouTube videos (the Turks are 
fanatic YouTubers).  
  American Marxists don't have that kind of courage.  They (we!) would rather 
send caustic e-mails and blast one another's supposed apostasy, the 
intellectual equivalent of Palestinian radicals who would rather indulge 
murderous rage against Israeli civilians than work to build alliances with the 
Israeli Left and working-class (although I am a strong supporter of their cause 
where it is congruent with socialism and simple humanity).
  So tell me, fellow-Marxmailers:  Am I the only one who feels this way?!

       
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