Louis: My office is at 3rd floor Thorndike on 120th St. between B'Way and Amsterdam in NY. The next time you are in NY, come call me a prick to my face. I am condescending, sarcastic and rude, but I am political. The reason you used a word like "prick" was that you were frustrated because you weren't doing a very good job at defending market socialism. The reason you weren't doing a very good job is that you are a second-rate thinker. Over on the Marxism list, I have somebody named Pat #3 from the Maoist Internationalist Movement who has been trying to draw me into a debate about the virtues of Stalin for at least a month now. I ignore him for the same reason I ignore you. Neither of you have sufficient brain-power to interest me. Have a good day, mate. On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, bill mitchell wrote: > > now i would like to make a few points about this "flaming" notion. i notice > that louie is affecting hurt and upset for being flamed. who flamed him? i > become amused in fact when the enemies of the middle class (the class > who stand between a > subjectively conscious working class and a docile split group of workers facing > a powerful capital) get upset about words and language. i personally could not > give a stuff what people say as long as they have some substance to their > statements. substance not style is the important thing. when i called louie a > fucking condescending prick i was making what i believe to be a factual > statement full of valid description. it was not even impolite from where i come > from. i had witnessed two or more days of one or two line attacks on the > so-called professoriate. how we are not the true communists and how we are > inactive and sheltered by the bourgous tenure (in fact OZ academics no longer > have tenure - but small detail), how we waffle away while the true > revolutionaries sit in the hills with the emotional music willing them to > invade the capitalist bastions below....etc. i didn't detect any substance at > all, despite the good faith shown by the so-called professors in their > contributions. so i believed that to be condescending in the extreme and hiding > a paucity of analysis. i used the word prick as it is used in common place talk > - someone who is behaving in a difficult manner. i noted that louie was calling > various people all sorts of names like bozo - which in OZ is quite insulting > meaning braindead. prick means difficult. > > i note that jim calls me impolite. not at all. i am one of the most polite > people around. want references (write to michael p, for example). i just don't > believe in retreating to the fence sitting middle class value system b/c lying > behind that is a consumer society with little revolutionary zeal or commitment. > so a flame to me is when i merely attack someone on an ascriptive basis for no > reason, and with no argument. i have never done that ever. and i laugh my head > off when i read louie affecting this hurt after reading his style of > presentation. >
