Proyect wrote: That's because you are a Spartacist League sectarian who has spent 30 years doing nothing except denouncing "traitors" and "reformists". Your first post to Marxmail was to accuse someone who had just been buried of being a propagandist for fascism. This was a disgusting provocation and a sure sign of your intention to be a sectarian troll. How would anybody have any idea of what you accused Gerry Foley of was true or not? You didn't even provide any documentation except to allude to some obscure Eastern European rightwing groups that he supposedly aided and abetted. This is not serious participation and only one step above scrawling on the walls of a bathroom in a service station.
I knew Gerry Foley and might have had some interest in answering your slander but I was too busy with other matters. Your trouble is that you want to be taken seriously but you are too deep into your fake-Coyoacan posturing to understand how aberrant you are. It is like trying to explain to a mental patient that he isn't Jesus Christ. ****************************** I'm not so aberrant on the question of Tsipras's betrayal, am I? In fact, I daresay more marxmail subscribers agree with me on this question than with your ever more lame apologias for the Syriza government. Two regular subscribers to marxmail unsubbed as a result of your action, and about a half dozen others protested. Could it be that you threw me off because the position I had taken on Greece all along was vindicated by events, and more of your subscribers were coming to see that? One would also get the impression from you that I'm still a Spartacist or only quit yesterday, instead of nearly 30 years ago (on distinctly unfriendly terms). I never presented myself as a spokesman for Spartacist politics on marxmail. My past affiliation was something you dug up from a short bio that appeared in the Weekly Worker (which I now write in). You never stopped yelling "Spart" and "sectarian" in reply to my arguments (in lieu of attempting to answer them with ones of your own) ever since.For record: I was not a member of any far-left group, or groups, for 30 years. I was in the Spartacist League for 5 years (1981-1986) and in the Bolshevik Tendency for ten (1987-1997). Altogether, that adds up to 15 years, by my arithmetic. One would also get the impression that my post about Gerry Foley was sent a few weeks ago, instead of in 2012. Had your combing through the marxmail archives to discredit me after the fact been a little less selective, you may have discovered that I did, in fact, document my claims concerning Foley with a citiation from an article in International Viewpoint under his editorship, which argued that the Forest Brothers were a legitimate anti-Stalinist national liberation movement. FYI, the Forest Brothers were not an "obscure group". They were an armed Estonian anti-Soviet "resistance" group during WWII, that "resisted" by fighting with the Waffen SS and assisting in the roundup of Jews. Their endorsement by IV was so embarrassing that Ernest Mandel had to disown it in what was effectively his last will and testament. Nor was Foley's embrace of this group an aberration. It was consistent with his politics of support for Eastern European reactionaries as bona fide "anti-Stalinists". I wrote in my posts that his dedication was admirable. His political role, at least in this important respect, was not a positive one, IMO. You, on the other hand, are in apparent agreement with Foley in your view that fascistic types have a role to play in the "broad non-sectarian" movement you envisage. Lets face it Louis, you threw me off marxmail because you don't like my politics, which you are apparently less willing to tolerate than the blood-curdling anti-Semitism of Gilad Atzmon and Israel Shamir, or the white supremacism and sympathy for the "lost cause" of the Confederacy of Paul Craig Roberts. Too bad I don't have a widely read outlet for your movie reviews to offer you. Maybe then my politics would become a little less objectionable. Jim Creegan
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