I don't know about this. A collection taken up on the Marxism list will
help to keep the headquarters of a revolutionary party open in Buenos
Aires. I think that if I started a textbook project like this on the
Marxism list, it would take off. Academia tends to make people
individualistic.
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Michael Perelman wrote:
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> > Jim Devine once told me that organizing anything on pen-l -- we were
> > discussing the possibility of creating a textbook -- was like herding
> > cats. I would love to prove him wrong.
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> Wonderful. But I don't believe that is because of the kind of people on pen-l
> but lies in the very nature of maillists. The discredited author of an
> Introduction to a now infamous work had a very good point to make. Lin Piao
> argued that *Quotations from Chairman Mao* should be read only in constant
> relationship to collective practice. I think for all leftists and not just
> (orthodox?) marxists this holds considerable truth, even in respect to fairly
> abstruse issues of theory. Discussions on the left among women and men not
> involved in collective practice together are apt to resemble a herd of cats.
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> Carrol
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