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Richard Seymour wrote: > Well, Kevin Murphy is a scholar who has worked hard to arrive at his > understanding of Stalinism, not least with his /Revolution and > Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory/. I don't > think him at all batty, regardless of how uncivil he might have been to > you in the past. I had a glance at this book about a year ago and it seemed like a very nice dissertation. With all the time he used to waste on alt.politics.socialism.trotsky, I am surprised he ever got if finished. Perhaps if you were on this newsgroup, you might have seen the battiness I alluded to, including his claim that Cuban helicopters dropped sandbags on rafts trying to reach Miami in order to murder all those aboard. His hatred of Cuba was palpable. > Similarly, I would argue that you are wrong to describe Cuba as a > socialist society, and that to see it as such is inconsistent with the > basic principle that for there to be a socialist society, the working > class has to be in power. But it doesn't follow that the state caps > want to have you ex-communicated from the marxist tradition. Actually, I rather enjoy being excommunicated. After 10 years in the American SWP, I would tend to reject any club that would have me as a member. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
