Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk Re: ANSWER, cops, breakaways

[Luke Weiger]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >Nonetheless, I do think that there are fewer posts from Marxists on
> >LBO-talk than there were near the inception of the list (in 1998?).
> >There are still some Marxists and fellow travelers left here --
> >let's see, yours truly, Jenny Brown, Carrol Cox, James Farmelant,
> >James Heartfield, John Mage, Lou Paulsen (whom I hope will stay),
> >Michael Perelman, Stephen Philion, Marta Russell, Justin Schwartz,
> >etc., but few of them post regularly.

Doug wrote:
> I guess I no longer qualify as a Marxist, though I do post a lot
> here. Funny Justin qualifies, though he rejects the label, and I
> don't, though I accept it.
>
> And many of the people you list *are* frequent posters. Some of the
> most frequent, in fact.

Here's an idea I'm too lazy to follow through on: someone should count the
number of posts by those in Yoshie's Marxist or "interesting leftist" camp
(e.g. Carrol, Lou, Stephen etc.) and compare it to the number of posts by
non-interesting liberals such as myself.  Somehow, I don't think the numbers
would support Yoshie's angst, although I guess at one time LBO-talk probably
did have a higher ratio of hard to soft lefties than is currently the case.

-- Luke