On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 11:35 AM, David Walters wrote: > > It is necessary to STOP labeling people and stick to the issues, not list > members political personalities. ... idiotic and quite false > counter-labeling like "Trotskyite" (itself a pejorative term) vs > "communist" is simply trolling. Secondly, for most of us, > "Stalinist/Stalinism" is also a highly polemical term..., avoid using it > when possible
Which way does this paragraph lean: don't label, or don't label except when the label is "Stalinist," on the excuse that you are labeling but I am describing? David answered long ago, the latter: "Cockburn’s position on Spa[i]n was [more] congregant with our young Ben Norton than Louis lets on. In that Cockburn on Spain was pretty much an unreconstructed Stalinist" https://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2016/12/26/ben-norton-completes-his-stalinist-turn/#comment-326024 Yup, descriptive, the same excuse that Duane and the rest of us could use. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33789): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33789 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109752225/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
