Tsk tsk tsk. I think that when C. boddhi addresses somebody as "C. Somebody," he means "Citizen" and not "Comrade". That makes everything just fine... Citizenoid Barkley Rosser On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:42:25 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> wrote:
> > C. Proyect,
> > Native Americans also installed semi-permanent fish weirs in
> >spawning streams, a process that would eventually kill off that stream to
> >spawning. Of course beavers do the same thing. There is a tremendous
> >amount of "waste" in the natural ecosystem, any idea to the contrary is
> >idealization.
>
> First of all, I am not your "comrade". You are an anti-Communist.
> Communists call each other comrade, not Wall Street yuppie smart-alecs like
> yourself. Furthermore, when you begin to cite some scholarly literature to
> back up your assertions, then I might take you seriously. Of course, with
> an idiotic, pompous tag like "boddhisatva", that seems like a waste of time
> for me even to suggest such a thing. They say that something like 75% of
> American college students never read more that 2-3 books a year once they
> graduate. You obviously fall into that category. For four years I have been
> reading your garbage, but there is nothing in there but bald assertions.
> You pontificate about everything under the sun from the Russian Revolution
> to ecology to the American Indian, but give no evidence that you are
> familiar with any facts.
>
> In my post, I cited the scholarly work of John Ewers, the chief ethnologist
> at the Smithsonian Institution and author of many books and articles on the
> Plains Indians. You state that Indians killed off the fish in their
> streams. Is this something you heard from the jackasses you work with on
> Wall Street, or did it just pop into your head. Maybe it is something you
> read in Newsweek when you were at the dentist's office. The least you could
> do is provide the issue date.
>
> Now we know that your real agenda is not clarifying the social conditions
> of indigenous peoples. It is rather to give vent to your prejudices, like
> the time you referred to the waitresses in buckskin skirts at the Foxwood
> gambling casino. You nearly got throw off PEN-L for this kind of racist
> baiting. I hope that Doug Henwood has backbone enough to do the job which
> should have been done long ago.
>
> Louis Proyect
>
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu