Greetings Economists; On Oct 14, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
I am thinking of two: Marlene Dixon in her communist organization and Bernadine Dohrn in the Weatherman organization. And incidentally, Mark Rudd (interview in the Spring 2006 Radical History Review) has given a far more honest account of his Weatherman days than I have ever seen from Dohrn.
Doyle; Yeah Marlene was a very mean person. I served for a time with them because I think it important that women and sexuality be central to socialist organization. Which gave me an up close education in organizational problems which having women lead didn't over come. The party structure was overtly emotionally oppressive in which women just as much did acts of oppression just as much a men can. Marlene drank heavily, used intimidation to quell the chaos of people's 'dissent' but I suppose it much better to say that intimidation forces people to retreat emotionally from interaction. Therefore her error was in understanding the cognition of interaction. In other words she intellectualized the process of socialist freeing of women in the standard way of historical parties thereby reproducing the emotional inertness of the common cadre. Not quite inert was I said Yoda, but I was twisted into levitating my ass out of there. Doyle
