Re: [Marxism] Bring Back Walter!

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:57:05 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Reviewing this provocative bullshit now, which is pretty consistent with 
> Walter's debating style over the past 3 years, I can only describe 
> David's call for tolerance and a civil tone as having a rather hollow 
> ring. Frankly, after going back into the archives to review Walter's 
> post during the post-inauguration period, I have to marvel at my own 
> patience with putting up with this "spittle-flecked" language, to use 
> David's term for as long as I did. I guess one person's spittle is 
> another person's honey.

  You should also figure that your renewed sectarian expulsion of Walter 
Lippman from your mailing list is the main theme of most of the contributions 
to this list at this moment in time. 

  My recommendation: do not destroy your own mailing list. Beware of phyrric 
victories. 

  I think you should try to look at the USA from Cuba, instead of looking on 
the world with the eyes and spirit of a USanian. 

  You are proud of the many people from beyond the borders of your 
country, but you act in all your posts as somebody who sees the world only 
as an extension of the United States of America. 

  Sure, the USA are the most important country of this capitalist world, but if 
revolutionists want to make something out of it, they should look at the USA 
from a world perspective. Try to use that once in a while. 

  And maybe you should not read all of Walter Lippman's contributions and 
answer each and every single one of them, but have a look at the 
contributions of the other participants, that would help you to avoid 
duplicating so many messages others have already posted to your list. 

  And maybe you should also try and use some more sensible subject lines, 
because beyond your close circle not everybody knows the titles of the films 
you have just seen or your special enemies which nobody beyond the US 
borders ever has heard about. 

  So, if you want to make your mailing list a little bit more useful, look at 
what you are doing yourself with it, and do not try to find the problem mainly 
in "Cubaphilia". 

  Tell you what: there is hardly a better place to understand the world, i.e. 
the USofA as the dictatorship of this world, than Cuba. 

  So far for today with my rant. 


Cheers, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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