At 09:33 18/05/2007, Louis wrote:
To get right to the point, I referred to Holloway in my post as a
"British professor". In other words, I was under the assumption that
he was British, not Irish. I must add that I came to that conclusion
because of the preciousness of his prose which Michael Lebowitz has
described as a fart.
NO,NO, Louis! I would never call his prose a 'fart'! On the contrary,
I view it as poetry. And, what I poetically called 'a silent fart'
(drawing upon his own description of the defiance of the 'wise
peasant' who 'bows deeply and silently farts') was his answer as to
'how to change the world'. (Well, occasionally, it's not so silent in
form--- but the essence is unchanged.) Incidentally, in his response
to me in Historical Materialism (our extended exchange on OPE-L
focused upon the concrete case of Venezuela), he proposes that I was
attempting to de-radicalise Marx and that I should go back to read
Marx again. :-)
michael
PS. I wasn't aware that Holloway had taught in Ireland.
Another "proof" of my racism is that I told a joke about Sherry, my
mom's Irish Setter. This had to be reference to Holloway's ethnicity
in the eyes of our amateur sleuth and two-bit moralist.
Holloway has told this closed list geared to academics that he is
"amused" by my reference to Sherry. I suppose that I should be
flattered that he deigned to acknowledge my joke. In the past, when I
tried to have a debate with him on the autonomist mailing list, he
stood aloof and pretended that I did not exist. I can't blame him
because his ideas are somewhat worse than described by Michael
Lebowitz. They are not just a fart, but an accident in your pants
that sometimes happens when you mean to pass wind but go too far.
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