[PEN-L:11551] Selection of Issues, was Re: Marxist response to East Timor

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:

> Brad is correct that we all do not need to work on every issue.  Maybe he can
> tell us more about Primus's study.  Does he come up with anything new?

I would of course agree. My point in pointing to the multiplicity of issues
was merely to underline that in selecting what issues to work on marxists
need not follow the arrows put up by the bourgeois press (the opposite
if anything).

Decades ago my wife and I wrote for the newspaper of a small communist
group. She objected to one topic on the basis that it was not the function
of a radical paper to write reviews of the latest drama staged by the
capitalists for the entertainment of the working class. (She had it worded
better, but she doesn't remember the incident at all and I don't remember
the exact wording.)

Carrol