Re: [Marxism] Mike Whitney interview with Robert Pollin

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter Lippmann wrote:
> When a specific question is asked of me, and I choose to respond, I
> try to provide specific examples to demonstrate the point. As long as
> this is a free forum and participants are permitted to express their
> views, it would be better if the moderator didn't try to tell the
> participants what they may or may not say.

It is *not* a free forum. When you insist on giving us the same lecture 
about Allen Woods and Venezuela (or Joe Hansen and Cuba in 1959) that 
you have given countless times, I have a responsibility as a moderator 
to instruct you to lay off. If you want to keep making these points, 
make them on Greenleft or alt.politics.socialism.trotsky. We have heard 
them too often here. I was too stupid to figure out that you had this 
lecture up your sleeve when you crossposted the Pollin interview.

> All references to provocative words like Cuba,
> perfectionism, China or other subjects which push buttons for some
> people were carefully avoided.

Walter, don't you get it? Your interventions around Chavez, the ANC, 
Morales, Sinn Fein, et al are finished. If you want to take up these 
questions, take them up elsewhere. I am dead serious. The list has to 
focus on more pressing questions, like how to understand the depth of 
the financial crisis.

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