It was written:
> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:10:16 +1100
> From: Rob Schaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CrashList] Zzzzzz
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> G'day all,
>
> Indignant sermon alert.
>
> Why, oh why, does every list with a couple of lefties on it have to talk
about
> Stalin?
>
> We have a US, illicitly ruled by oil interests, building ever larger
consumer
> vehicles, opposing even modest 'greenhouse' amelioration policies ...
[snips for brevity only]
> And we've got to sit and listen to arguments about stuff that was history
> before most of us were born, concerning individuals and ideologies that
have
> nothing to contribute, either to our environmental problems or to the need
to
> give democratic voice to the billions who are so much more productive and
> flexible than the creaking old institutions which got us here.
>
> Stuff's happening out there, comrades! We're living in interesting times!
> And I humbly (nah, stridently) submit we'd be better employed trying to
work
> out what the constraints and opportunities are in this cataclysmic
becoming
> than we are looking to comparisons between a dead mad tyrant and a
dissolved
> and hopeless old organisation. Even the debate on relatively recent, and
just
> possibly relevant, stuff to do with Milo and NATO is carefully designed to
> sustain heat at the expense of light.
>
> I mean, this stuff just ain't useless, it's BORING.
>
> Best to all,
> Rob.
AMEN!
WHAT ROB SAID!!!!
Agreed!!
Meeeeeeee tooooooooo!
Thanks, Rob, for saying what (IMHO) needed to be [YELLED].
Somebody asked for a suggestion.
Here is one:
Take the discussions of Yugo, Jared's rebuttals, the 100-year-old-history of
what might have been, and those things easily identifiable as NOT relevent
to Crashlist [eg something that cannot *remotely* be connected in some way
with the crash(es) ]
and
move them to where they belong
which is:
Leninist-International
Marxist-Leninist-List
Marxism-Thaxis
Marxism-psych
Marxism-Unmoderated
(http://lists.wwpublish.com/)
Tom
PS Anybody going to answer Stan? or are we just going leave his excellent
post twisting slowly in the wind while the 3977th debate about "How Hitler
Fucked Over Stalin" continues into yet another decade ...?
"It is certain that capitalism will collapse, that hundreds of millions and
undoubtedly, billions, will die. No-one who fails to make these facts the
basis and guiding compass of their politics, has any right even to claim
that they have a politics." -- Mark Jones
"I am through learning one more new language to yell 'the Sky is Falling'
one more time at one more motherfucker who demands to hear it his way. Fuck
'em; let 'em freeze to death, thirsty, in the dark." -- Me
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