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On 7/18/15 4:00 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote:
You're booting Jim for doing class analysis? That's fucked up. To be precise, that's Stalinism.
No, it's not. This is not a party. I don't collect dues or ask people to sell a stupid newspaper at plant gates 6am in the morning.
It is a mailing list that I have the right to edit, to create boundaries around just like any other publication, print or electronic. I don't tend to remove people from the list unless I decide that their purpose here is only to do "class analysis" as you put it. I had 11 years of this kind of "class analysis" in the Trotskyist movement and that was enough for me. If anybody wants to set up a mailing list where you can blather on about the petty-bourgeoisie, contact me privately and I'll help you get started.
This list has been around for 17 years and has over 1500 subscribers. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it is that is not the place to do Leon Trotsky imitations. Here's a reminder from the Marxmail website subscription page for anybody tempted to repeat the Cannon-Shachtman debate:
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