How they do it: these folks are reptiles who excrete uric acid as a solid.
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:43:00 -0400 > Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9/25/11 8:31 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > > > > > > The Democratic Party. > > > the real > > problem is not the DP but the radical implosion of the 1970s and 80s > > when the Maoists and the SWP went off the deep end. The real need is to > > break out of that framework altogether and get organized on a class > > struggle basis but without the insanity. We had a chance to build > > something significant out of the 2000 Nader campaign but the god-damned > > Demogreens sabotaged it. I guess that the DP still is the turd in the > > punch bowl after all... > > I think it is. Granted the space-cadettery of both Maoists > and SWP -- I saw the Maoist dream world at first hand, but > know little about the SWP version -- that's a long time ago, > though to people of Louis' and my vintage it seems like only > yesterday. But the DP is still alive and well and poisoning > well-intended minds daily, hourly, and on a mass scale. > > If Louis asks me nicely, I will tell a story that captures > the characteristic flavor of Maoist nuttiness back in the > day. > > ...Oh hell, I'll tell it anyway. Late 70s. I was part of a > little Maoist cell here in New York, led by a guy -- > let's call him Dave Manchester -- who was really the > classic commie ironbutt: he could outlast anybody at a > meeting, and never, as far as I know, had to get up and > go pee. > > The moment I'm thinking of is shortly after the > Three Mile Island nuke-plant scare. The streets were full > of people riled up about nuclear power. Dave didn't > quite know which way to jump on this one. On the one > hand, the "masses are mobilized." On the other hand -- > wait for it -- "after we take state power, we'll > have to *run* these reactors." > > True story. > > I should add that Dave grew up to be a union bureaucrat > and is now a thorn in the side of a relative of mine who > runs a union. I gather he is no longer a Maoist but still > an ironbutt; and nobody has ever seen him in the WC. > > -- > -- > > Michael J. Smith > [email protected] > > http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org > http://www.cars-suck.org > http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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