Activism and Avoidance

[Alex LoCascio]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:11:16 EST Apsken at aol.com writes:
>Did you read the exchange, or have you forgotten it? We were debating
issues
>until Alex wrote, in avoidance to telling points, "Maybe you're one of
those
>privileged radicals from the 60s who could afford to go where the
struggle
>was.  Not all of us are so fortunate." 

Bullshit.  You were boring the hell out of me with tales of your glory
days long before I taunted you with that.


>Alex's demand for a "Marxist" theoretical reason to support a
straightforward
>demand for women's freedom from oppression is one example

Aw fer cryin' out loud!  You're misrepresenting me again!  I did not ask
for a Marxist theoretical reason to support abortion.  I asked how
Marxists define their own support for abortion in terms separate from
bourgeois liberals.


>Alex has taken Hitchens and Cockburn as his models, as he eventually
>acknowledged; 

Along with John Waters, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Crumb, Don DeLillo,
Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Tom Tomorrow, Karl Marx,  and a host of
others who manage to be enjoyable and thought-provoking, not shrill and
and didactic.


>I do not agree with Doug that leftists are to blame for the lack of a
mass
>constituency. 

Not entirely, but to a substantial extent.  With self-righteous Leftist
like you, it's no wonder most people could give two shits about the Left.

 

<soporific lapse into nostalgia and leftist arcana graciously snipped>

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