Please, let's cool it. There are more important things going on now. Do we really need circular firing squads?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:09:10PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > And who is centering on personalities? Now it's Domhoff, added to a long > > list of ad hominems, including Jim O'Connor and David Harvey - three > > radical scholars who've done really fine work. This kind of spurious > > even-handedness is deeply unfair Michael. > > The only thing I ever wrote about David Harvey is in the URPE journal > that can be read at: > http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/indian/Harvey_Indian.htm. > > What happened between me and Jim O'Connor is ancient history. > > Henwood has complained numerous times privately to Michael Perelman > about my presence on the list. He cannot stand the fact that I am here. > He would like to exclude me because my version of Marxism and his > own--such as it is--clash. But instead of answering me about David > Harvey or whatever else, he accuses me of "flaming" David Harvey or not > honoring the decorum of PEN-L. This kind of exclusionary attitude should > be condemned by anybody serious about the use of the Internet for the > free and open exchange of ideas. > > In point of fact, the letter to Domhoff was not only accepted by the > moderators of PSN, it was read by the subscribers with no complaints > about "ad hominem", etc. PSN has over 800 subscribers and is the primary > voice of leftwing sociologists on the Internet. The furor here is not > about Domhoff, it is about me. > > -- > > The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
