Re: Question for Louis Proyect

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Dawson wrote:
> I did not call you an FBI agent on LBO-talk, though I did say you have penis
> envy regarding Doug Henwood.

No, you told me this in private mail. Plus, you told me that you never
wanted to get any mail from me again. So frankly I found your query on
pen-l to be a provocation. I am not used to answering questions from people
who think that I am a cop and who have told me never to correspond with
them again.

>  Meanwhile, I assume you're too embarrassed by
> your own argument that "urban life is unsustainable" to answer my question.

I suggest that you read John Bellamy Foster on this question. I believe
that you wrote an article with him once upon a time. What I am saying is
completely uncontroversial. It goes to the heart of Marxist ecology. Marx
advocated that the distinction between city and countryside be erased under
communism. He said that industry and agriculture had to be intermixed. This
is not "Pol Pot-ism". Please try to read John Bellamy Foster's fine journal
"Organization and Environment" which has many articles relevant to this
question. I also urge you to read Mike Davis and Donald Worster. I simply
don't have the time or interest to give you an ecosocialist presentation of
the topic especially since I find your query to be patently disingenuous. I
do invite you to read my various articles on the question at:

http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/my_ecology.htm

Not that I expect it to make a difference to you. In all of our exchanges,
I have found a nearly perverse refusal to engage with what I write.


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