On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Louis Proyect wrote: > Michael: > >Louis, I don't always agree with our friend from JHU, but I think that > >you are going a bit over the top on this. If you look at the corporate > >connections of my employers, you would not find a pretty picture. Maybe > >Columbia is more pure. > > > >Even Ricardo is talking nice now about Jim B. So let's try to keep this > >as convivial as possible. Louis, I gotta disagree with this thread. This is just like the kind of garbage that the Orangeist epigones of Teresa Ebert et al were throwing at Doug Henwood and Ellen Wood a while back...Verso Press is less than perfect, therefore Henwood and Wood are next to evil...or a little worse. This kind of stuff is the stuff of sectarianism, which you were only accusing, with no apparent justification, Aijaz Ahmad of just a few days ago. I could see myself having to work for employers that are less than perfect politically, to put it mildly. If I had your specialized computer skills, I could see not having to do so, *possibly*. One of the best labor organizers and left activists in Taiwan I knew was a bureaucrat for the KMT government. If I nitpicked in a holier than thou fashion, I'd never have gotten to know him or hear the version of the Taiwan miracle from a Taiwanese labor activist who wasn't committed to either Chinese or Taiwanese nationalism, but was interested in organizing Taiwan's workers and developing their class consciousness... Steve > > I won't say another word about this, but I was shocked personally to > discover that Wojtek was a paid researcher for an outfit that is basically > has the same relation to big Capital as the liberal missionary groups > depicted in "Thy Will be Done". In the 1930s, the Rockefeller Foundation > deployed liberal Christian missionary groups in Latin America to placate > the masses. In exchange for vaccinations, literacy programs and free > breakfasts, the poor people of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador lost > control of their petroleum. These back-stabbing NGO's that the Johns > Hopkins IPS are paid to research and promote have the same exact social and > economic function in backward countries today. I'd personally rather eat > dog shit than write policy papers for this outfit the way that Wojtek does, > but that's my final word on the subject. > > > Louis Proyect > > (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) > >
