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On 3/15/2016 10:51 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
Nonsense. I can recognize when people are repeating themselves. If
there is anything I have learned after moderating Marxmail for 18
years on May first, it is that.
You certainly do. Every time you write a blog you post it here twice,
once in rich html format, only you can post rich format to Marxmail, and
once in plain text, like the rest of us. But that doesn't bother me.
People repeat themselves all the time on Marxmail and you rarely point
it out. I think Manuel was right that you chimed in with that critique
this time to shutdown a thread in which there was apparently great
interest because it enjoyed something like 20 contributions before your
dismissive one word contribution signaling that it should end.
In point of fact, I think you and Kevin were wrong. I may have repeated
my assertion that Trump setup the confrontation in the face of charges
that I was bashing the protesters, but the subject of both paragraphs in
that post was localism - and that certainly wasn't repetitive in this
discussion, it was taking it in a new direction.
So I think Manuel was right that it was an example of while chauvinism
and a rather crass effort to shut down this thread. That bothers me.
But what really bothers me the most is that you have dismissed Manuel's
extremely important point 'about the "Whiteness" of these kinds of
discussions' by calling it "Nonsense."
Given our position in the class structure and our relationship to
imperialism as national minorities, its not surprising to find that
people of color are, on the whole, more class conscious and more in
favor of progressive revolutionary change than their white brothers and
sisters. That's just they way it is in my experience. By the same token,
one should expect us to be over represented, as compared to our
percentage in the population, in Left organizations.
Clearly we are not, but I predict there will never be a revolution in
the US until we are.
And why is the Left in this country so dominated by white activists that
it can be fairly called the white Left? The answer is white chauvinism
in the Left. Now someone dares to raise this issue on this list and your
response is "Nonsense?"
Houston, we have a problem here.
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