talking within & without

[pms]

Thanks for reminding me kell.  Of how my early encounters with Mark, Louis
and Carrol on LBO made me see that anti-captalism isn't nearly as important
as anti-totalitarianism.   As long as everybody gets their cut off the top,
let expectation for the common good put a ceiling on the inevitable
corruption of whatever economic system.  It's an evolutionary step anyway.

Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 05:57:03 -0400
From: kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net>
Subject: Re: talking within & without

i take it that part of your agitation work is to write list owners at other
lefty lists to encourage them to kick fellow leftists off or to have all
conspire to filter his or her posts. if you think your behavior has been a
shining beacon of light for folks here who are merely progressive and may
be interested in left ideas or even Leninist ideas, I'd have to agree with
Doug, most people's response to your tactics would be "Fuck You".

Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:48:55 -0700
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From: harry kershner <hkershner35 at LYCOS.COM>
Subject: Re: Leftist Pluralism
<...>
For those whose tolerance does not extend to this extreme, I recommend the
following from new member Carrol Cox:

"A post by you just got forwarded to the lbo-talk list by the person you
accurately describe as "This repulsive dimwit Pugliese." My filter sends
his posts directly to a special file, which I usually send en masse to
trash without looking at any of the posts. This one I happened to glance at
before deleting. The only way to handle Pugliese is either to expel him
from the list or for list members to more or less agree to filter his posts
to trash and ignore him."

At 11:25 PM 10/12/01 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
>In fact, the one thing I do really well is direct one on one agitation
>and recruiting.