As Lou says, a revolutinary party that did not expel Melvin would not be a revolutionary party.
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Well, if a specific revolutionary party sought human liberation irrespective of wether that human was straight or gay, I assume Melvin would not join this party.
Solidarity is not a sentiment. And on this list now solidarity is measured by the total repudiation of the kind of horseshit melvin has been putting out.
Solidarity is not the logic of an idea. I repudiate what Melvin is saying because I don't agree with him....not because PEN-L solidarity (whatever that means) requires that I do so.
There's not much love lost between Melvin and me. But, it seems to me that the whole point of these list-servs is to engage in reasoned dialogs with people one doesn't totally agree with. How else to re-build the left? How else?
Joanna
