I am a lurker. I read the stuff posted here while I post very little. I am new as a member of the LBO list but I have visited the archives a few times in the past - i find the discussions here incredibly thought provoking and challenging.
Which brings me to my point...
The exchangve between angelus and julio is a prime example of the very reason I was excited to join this group - I feel smarter having read it; however, the name calling confuses me. Mind you, I do not prefer holding hands, singing kumbaya, and then sharing a group hug - the argumentation is precisely what makes these discussions so important and edifying. But I think we need to recognize a common purpose, that at the end of the day, to paraphrase ep thompson, we don't need to worry about who is on marx's side because he is on ours, and that "side" demands rigorous study, theorization, and work, none of which is possible in isolation. In other words, I need to read (and engage) these disagreements (and I bet many others feel similarly), they are important to my development, and while I don't care if people are polite, insults and personal jabs are politically reckless, at best discouraging and at worst counterproductive to the struggle that many of us share. I don't mean to sound like a prude, but seriously - when we bullshit each other who do you think laughs the hardest?
-joshua
"But for this dialectical complementarity #between theory and practice# to emerge, a proper organization is needed, one which struggles continuously to give all its members the opportunity to engage in practical activity and to reflect on, i.e. to theorize, it (Carchedi 1987; 23)."
On Jul 15, 2010 1:41 AM, "Joseph Catron" <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:03 PM, brad <babscritique at gmail.com> wrote:
Angelus Novus wrote: "Even a... While I probably shouldn't have, I've just wasted far too much of my time on Google, trying to find any possible racist connotations of this, and come up short.
Don't get me wrong - I've met Julio several times, like him, and, if I were forced to quantify it, generally value his opinion a bit more than Angelus'.
But, for all of that, I have no idea how this is supposed to be inflammatory, as opposed to a bit petulant. Hopefully someone will tell me, so I can stop wondering.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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