Re: Peruvian Maoism

[James Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Jones replies to Brian Green, saying (among other things): >Meaning,
we must take the PCP at your evaluation rather than it's own. <

I believe that it was Marx and Engels who argued that we should judge
no-one according to their own self-evaluation (in THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY, I
believe). The same applies to societal movements.

So instead of indirectly attacking Brian on a personal level, how about
responding to his evaluation in a materialist way, i.e., with reference to
empirical evidence, theoretical flaws in his argument, etc.

It is quite possible, of course, that both the PCP's self-evaluation and
Brian's evaluation of them are inaccurate.

in pen-l solidarity and for socialism from below,

Jim Devine
jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx & http://clawww.lmu.edu/1997F/ECON/jdevine.html