Hari: please see my numbering of your comments, below. 1. what is " *it* "? Marxist-Leninist???, Stalinist???, ???
2. https://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mypage.htm... at some point, Lou switched to blogging for his lengthier postings. see: https://louisproyect.wordpress.com/ https://louisproyect.wordpress.com/?s=20+years 3. Though Lou forbade Stalin/Trotsky "debate", he could often, but not always, welcome many different currents within Marxism. One of his favorite people from the Utah version of this list was a Mark Jones, who i'd guess would consider himself a Stalinist or at least a defender of the Russian revolution. I had assumed you were familiar with, and a subscriber to, the older version of Marxmail. Perhaps i'm wrong in that regard. I have GBs of data from the original archives of the list that would give you a much better sense of the breadth of discussion back then. https://louisproyect.wordpress.com/category/stalinism/ https://louisproyect.wordpress.com/category/trotskyism / 4. i would recommend against accommodation. i ask everyone i talk to (privately) about the list (most of the moderators, plus others): "has it become too Trotskyist???". I know of only one person, whom Lou had hoped might consider being THE moderator after he was deceased, who spoke in the affirmative. but i recently reviewed the old marxmail archives and the breadth of the list has, IMHO, decreased. It would be a piece of work to upload the older marxmail archives into groups.io. to undertake the endeavour i'd want to hear from list members as to the desirability of having access to the old posts. Les On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 05:27 PM, hari kumar wrote: > > 1. In the past I've stated clearly here that I consider myself as a > Marxist-Leninist and not a Stalinist, and I agree ( somewhat - although not > entirely and universally) that "communists who respect the work of Stalin > rarely take *it* as anything but a slur." > > 2. On this forum, it was started by somehow *who I believe was a Trotskyist > - Louis P.* Les and Mark B will no doubt correct me - but that remained my > perception of him. > I joined partly because of that, "what were such people thinking in > today's world?" > > > > 3. Proyect welcomed me on, knowing my views. > I also joined to get a wider newsfeed. > > 4. Since then it is clear to me the site is virtually *90% pro-Trotsky*. > As such I have *accommodated* in terminology. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39192): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39192 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116179785/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
