Doug Henwood wrote:
> lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
>
> >Doug, would you please welcome him back? I'd hate to think that my
> >most lasting contribution to this list was hastening (with Justin's
> >help) the exit of such an open and unblinded mind.
>
> He didn't leave, though he seems to be contemplating it.
>
> I've been especially distressed - meaning I usually am, but it's been
> worse lately - by the insularity of a lot of listmembers. They're not
> interested in, or quite hostile to, people they deem too sectarian,
> or too liberal, or too "academic," or too whatever. The major reason
> I started this list was to offer a forum where people on the broadly
> defined "left," whatever that is, could talk across disciplinary,
> political, and temperamental boundaries. Sometimes it works, but in
> times of crisis, like this, the fault lines really become apparent.
> In my gloomier moments I think maybe I should just pull the plug on
> the whole thing because it's all so fucking doomed and just
> reposition myself as a writer of starlet profiles.
>
> Doug