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I hardly consider this worth answering, but just want to point out to anyone new here that every time this issue comes up Mark ALWAYS offers the same tired explanation. I guess it could be described as "pedantry" just as Louis (correctly) described Walter's post. My concern isn't that losing a list member is any greater a tragedy than if they had never been here in the first place, but rather that such a modus operandi gives the left a bad name. Just as I think the position on Libya by Walter/PSL/Fidel gives the left a bad name. And then we hear some whining that those fighting for freedom and democracy in Libya (etc.) "fail" to appreciate the legacy of the left. :-( - Jeff On Fri, March 4, 2011 15:35, Mark Lause wrote: > > ...and email lists aren't parties. If you see the email list in > this way, > I'd urge you to push your chair back, log off, shut down the > computer and > take a week to reacquaint yourself with RL. > > And parties, as far as that goes, aren't microcosms of some > future society. > If you are trying to live your life in that shell, I think you > should break > out of it as well... > > Taken for what it is, this part of cyberspace--notwithstanding > the > subject--is not socially or democratically owned and managed. I > don't even > know how you could attempt such an experiment of doing this in a > useful > way..... > > The better analogy, frequently made, is that this is a different > kind of > "party." We're a group of people having a discussion as we're > sitting > around the moderator's living room. The host makes the rules. > Each of us > would probably do this a little differently, but that's the way > it goes. > > The most important question is whether the list does anything at > all for us > we couldn't get any other way. I think our presence here rather > answers > that question. If it does, we should refrain from lighting > large cheap > cigars and throwing matches in the moderator's waste can. > > ML [Intentionally not clipped] ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
