[Fwd: Article I am working on for Z]

[Louis Proyect]

Mike Albert:
If we go from having had class in the saddle of a one horse show, to having
race, gender, and sex in three saddles of three horses running largely at
odds with each other, back to the one horse class myopia – it will pile
shame and error upon shame and error. Dump the horses entirely. 

Louis Proyect:
And this idiot is the editor of a high-visibility radical magazine? God
help us. One can imagine him reviewing the copy that comes across his desk.
I couldn't write incoherent, impressionistic garbage like this at the point
of a gun. Okay, let me give it a try:

"The scylla of class and the charbyda of race, gender and sex have caused
the Marxist ship to founder on the rocks in the past because nobody has
taken the trouble to raise the sails of participatory decision-making. When
we sail down a river backwards, there might be a big waterfall awaiting us
but as long as the winds are favorable, we can navigate toward safety. That
is where the rudder comes into play. The rudder should be seen as the
solidarity we feel toward each other once all the rigid boundaries are
broken down, especially classism. The reason that the Soviet Union
collapsed is their rudder got caught in reverse and the winds died down.
When the ship went over the waterfalls, everybody got drownded."

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)