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A comment appearing in a "thread" often anticipates and generates a responding comment. Well and good. This is what I believe NORTH STAR intends, in part, to happen. Here, David's multiple comments seem to shade into a cross-examination - an adversarial form of discourse. A casual reader might even think it an attack against the Philadelphia Socialists. Irrespective of position, it had all the earmarks of morphing into a prosecution. Such exchanges are off-putting to independent radicals, especially those without a sectarian ideological past. I would suggest that they are exactly what the North Star is not intended to facilitate. Notwithstanding, the above, David seems to assume that a small and neighborhood based organization such as the Philadelphia socialists seem to be, has the resources to send members/cadres into every one of the arenas he refers to. How can such diverse activity be possible for it? It is fair to criticize such an organization for such an alleged failing? More importantly, in the early phases of socialist movements and organizations, as in the early stages of unions and other working class organizations such community or mundane oriented activities are exactly what builds movements at their initial stages, where there is not an ongoing expression of the active class struggle. David is not Phil Murray and the Philadelphia Socialists are not the Steelworkers Organizing Committee. They can't just shift cadres around as situations break out elsewhere. No present left organization really can. It is hardly fair to fault them for not doing so. David's comments set a tone that is to be abjured, not followed. Continuing in that pattern would be detrimental to the goal of attracting independent, often heretofore non-affiliated and inexperienced radicals to the North Star as a form for discussion and - more importantly - self-education. Off-putting engagements are the last thing that should be on-going in a political center such as the North Star appears to envision. The point is not that the North Star indulged in "censoring" his "thread" but what David intended to accomplish by that form of discussion. -----Original Message----- From: audradavid <[email protected]> To: Wayne M. Collins <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Aug 19, 2013 9:23 am Subject: [Marxism] Censorship on Pham Binh's thenorthstar.info ====================================================================== ule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ===================================================================== t is quite obvious to anyone who gets involved with The North Star that ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
