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.
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