Chip Berlet wrote:
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> Hi,
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> What about those of us who the right-wing calls Marxists and Communists but
> the doctrinaire wing of the Marxists calls pathetic social reformers?
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> We need a label, especially for our name badges at the Marxist Section
> meetings at the American Sociological Association conferences.
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We might call them _as if marxists_ -- thats how I've always responded to posts from you _as if_ you were marxist. See my earlier post on principled debate.
Incidentally, I think Justin is wrong in saying that Marxism was a movement. The _movement_ was communism, and that movement has _never_ been confined to marxists alone -- or even to communists alone. I don't think that movement is dead, and I think persons of many different "personal" isms will continue to be central even to that movement.
But I still intend to exclude "mind readers" from it. They can be hangers-on, and accepted as such, but they can't be comrades that I trust.
Carrol
> :-)
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> -Chip Berlet
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> Maybe we need a checklist
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> yes/no Holly Sklar
> yes/no G. William Domhoff
> yes/no C. Wright Mills
> yes/no Marx
> yes/no Doug Henwood
> yes/no Lenin
> yes/no Stalin
> yes/no Pol Pot