Don't pay any attention to Mark. He was purged from the real Stalinist list, marxism-international. Not only that, although he had denied it, he recently posted again something he did before about Russian/Soviet history in which he noted that when he went to Russia in 1985 the local absurdities had him turned into a convinced Thatcherite, however briefly or ephemerally, :-). Barkley Rosser On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:38:27 +0100 Mark Jones <Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk> wrote:
> Doyle Saylor wrote:
>
> > Let us see ...Marx was writing about economics, and the bible is about
> > religion. Brad postulates that Marx was writing religion.
>
>
> Doyle,
> You have to understand about Brad deLong: he is so utterly benighted that he
> actually believes that capital is a thing. This syndrome is a proper subject
> of Greek myth [getting lost in labyrinths, mistaking pieces of stone and
> driftwood for deities and vice versa, deities being the materialisation of
> archaic social relations] or of psychotherapy, but not discussions about
> value. Andrew Kliman has the opposite problem, which however results in
> the same anti-working class politics and general intellectual chauvinism:
> Kliman knows all about value, and he got tenure finding out. This sort
> of fate is so destructive to one's peace of mind that it's no wonder
> at all that traumatised Trots (there are dozens of these redundant
> academics around the place, probably hundreds) are in the grip of
> political phobias and run like rabbits from real struggle, while frothing
> sententiously about the 'evils of stalinism'. It was Jerry Levy -- he is
> the template they cut the others from -- who first made me realise that
> I am a stalinist - I'd always routinely denounced stalinism but he's the
> kind of person who'd make you admit to infanticide just to be different.
> I'm grateful to him for outing me, actually.
>
> Mark
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu