[PEN-L:1981] Re: Decentralism and straw men - an apology

[Trond Andresen <Trond.Andresen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Will Hull says on  Wed, 13 Dec 1995:

> Trond, as the first line of my message indicated, my comments were primarily
> directed at the "US liberal/left," not Norweigans....
> ...
> ...Like I said before, my comments were directed at the US context.
> ...
> .... Once again, my comments specifically regarded the US context.

Seems that I was to paranoid in my reply to Will. I have no quarrel
with his views on U.S. farming and class issues (which i know very
little about, so I haven't in fact any right to have an opinion).

I thought I detected an attack on my decentralist views concerning
national sovereignity/autonomy.  I probably read something into his
message that wasn't there.

> I think you may be having flashbacks
> to your sectarian days, Trond.

ME? Sectarian??? Unthinkable!! :-)

> If people want to oppose corporations so that they can own their own
> smaller-scale enterprise in order to make money off of other people's
> work, I do not support them.

Here I still think we disagree, Will. I will as a general rule support
local ownership of a firm as opposed to foreign ownership, all other
things (including capitalist relationships) being equal.

The other moments in my reply to Will may be considered as polemics not
against him, but against the "progressive internationalist" position on
pen.

Trond Adresen