Revolutionary greetings fellow thaxists, Before everyone heads off, a belated revolutionary new year good wishes to Rob, James, Hugh and Charles and anyone else who's still watching. I agree with Hugh that the virtual demise of this list is a symptom of the healthy revival of class struggles. So we should not be downhearted but rather bloody raving optimists.
I have to admit that I have been busy elsewhere, and that the type of discussion that we used to have on this list seems rather pedestrian compared to what is happening with the war on terrorism and the revolution in Argentina. I see Charles popping on some other lists now and then but hardly anyone else. M Thaxis was one of the first lists I joined back in 1995 too. The internet was a good forum for me in those days as we had just split with the LRCI and I was used to having full on debates. But as you would expect when few of us on this list are members of actual left tendencies, once we parted with the raving Maoists these debates basically went nowhere unless others too became active. For that reason I am on more activist lists where the chances of recruiting people to revolutionary Trotskyism is much higher. Most of my internet activity is on Yahoo these days. The ISKRA group was very active for a couple of years but seems to have slowed right down as the situation in Russia has been upstaged by Bush and Cos plan to reconquer the world. The group that is well worth a visit if you are not there right now is Argentina_Solidarity at Yahoo where the events in Argentina right now are being thrashed over. This is the best test for the left for some years. What do you say Hugh? Many of the themes that we talked about a few years back, such as Bolshevism vs Menshevism are now being put to the practical test in Argentina and elsewhere. The tendency for LA trotskyism to default into the patriotic front is a legacy of menshevism. The falling rate of profit, and value analysis, has been overtaken over by the actual TRPF and devaluation of a world depression. Anarchism is also back on the map with the anti-capitalist movement. Both are symptoms of the weakness of the revolutionary left and were totally non-plussed by Bushes war. But we have to be vigilant against anarchism playing the same counter-revolutionary role today that it did in Spain in the 1930's. Not that the revolutionary left came out with flying colours. You may know of Eric Lee who runs LabourStart coming out in favour of the Wests bombing of Afghanistan causing some ructions on his website? A lot of the left tried to form anti- war movements with pacifists and the results were predictable, a first-round victory to Bush where he redefined 'terrorism' to by used against any form of anti-capitalist resistance at home and abroad. In NZ we formed an anti-imperialist coalition with the hard left which came out for the defence of Afghanistan and defeat of the US. So we gained a solid grouping on the left that forms a pole of attraction in the class war against the US imperialist offensive. We are having regular meetings and actions on Argentina, Palelstine etc. So I would say we should bid goodbye to M-Th. When it was good it was very good. But while events are moving far too fast for its membership it serves no useful purpose. Lets all work to make sure we don't have to revive it this side of socialism. Dave B (CWGNZ) On 22 Jan 2002 at 4:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day all, > > I'd written, > > > Or shall we wrap the old list up and slip her quietly into the > > dustbin? > > Well, I think the eloquent silence with which this was greeted can't > be ignored. If no-one on the list nominates for the position of list > moderator within the week, I shall have to let Hans know Thaxis is > sans moderator and, very possibly, sans raison d'etre. > > All the best to all, > Rob. > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
