Re: the next wedge issue

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:

> As Lou says, a revolutinary party that
> did not expel Melvin would not be a revolutionary party.
>
> ....
Well, if a specific revolutionary party sought human liberation
irrespective of wether that human was straight or gay, I assume Melvin
would not join this party.

> Solidarity is not a sentiment. And on this list now solidarity is
> measured by the total repudiation of the kind of horseshit melvin has
> been putting out.
Solidarity is not the logic of an idea. I repudiate what Melvin is
saying because I don't agree with him....not because PEN-L solidarity
(whatever that means) requires that I do so.

There's not much love lost between Melvin and me. But, it seems to me
that the whole point of these list-servs is to engage in reasoned
dialogs with people one doesn't totally agree with. How else to re-build
the left? How else?

Joanna

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