Anti-imperialist Times

[Rakesh Bhandari]

I took some cheap shots at Jim and LM recently (maybe ken too). I've gone
beserk on Jim twice, both times over the same issue: what seemed to me an
undue fascination or perhaps empathy with the fascist sympathies of white
youth. So I called him a Tony Robbins wannabe. Now over the years LM has
cut into its opponents as girlie men, wimps, and cry babies. So some
turnabout is fair play.  On these lists you gotta be able to take if if
you're going to disha it out. Believe I have taken some real shots to the
gut on and off list for things I have said.

At any rate, I would like to say that Jim's, Frank Fueredi's and other LM
writers are among the most stimulating I have come across. An excellent
tonic at the very least.

As for the meaning of socialisation, perhaps we need to return to the
debates between and positions of Otto Bauer, Karl Korsch, Otto Neurath, Max
Adler and other Austro Marxists. Some sense of the debate be derived from
discussion in Nancy Cartwright, et al's bio of Neurath and Patrick Goode's
bio of Korsch.

yours, rakesh