Earlier, I was concerned about Neil's sectarian posts, but the sentiment
on the list overruled me. Attacking Jim so soon after his death was
certainly in bad taste, showing a great deal of insensitivity. Louis's
response to Neil, referring to him as sectarian vermin was certainly over
the top. Under ordinary circumstances, I would probably ask him to leave
the list for a while, but given his closeness to Jim, I think we can cut
him some slack, given the circumstances.
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:45:27PM -0500, neil wrote:
> This was quite a reply to the critique of nat-lib/Blaut from Louis P!
> Ah, What splendid profundity shown for his political trend!
>
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> "neil" wrote:
> >In e-mail discussions with the late Jim Blaut in 1996-8 , he never counld
> >explain why the 'theory'
> >of so-called national liberation of colonies since WW1 with the cross
> >class blocs of forces always
> >ended up with the national bourgeois on top and the toiling masses urban
> >and rural, politically
> >and economically hogtied and repressed, many times in blood , and under
> >the gun from their new nationally liberated regimes and their patrons..
>
> You are sectarian vermin.
>
> Louis Proyect
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