Michael P wrote:
> Hope your making an ironic comment, Gerald. And is your suffix, "ite,
> "instead of , "ist, " an unconscious echo of the stalinist usage of
> trotskyite, rather than trotskyist?
Yes, I was being sarcastic by suggesting some ironies in Odell's message.
You might not recall, but Odell said that they were willing to post on the
Web a "Trotskyite" family tree if one could be made available. I was
simply suggesting a double-standard: i.e. the "Maoists" call themselves
"ists" whereas they (accepting the standard Stalinist usage) call
"Trotskyists" by the derogatory name of "Trotskyite". They never seem to
"get" this point _until_ someone calls them a "Maoite" and/or a
"Stalinite".
Jerry
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