This is a first worth acknowledging: I agree very much with Rakesh's
comments on this issue--including the value of Allin's contributions.
If I can add one observation,an elaboration of my perhaps obscure reference
to "The Life of Brian".
It seems to be a law of human nature that people who hold a firm belief
fight more with those who hold the same belief than they do against those
who hold opposing beliefs; and this is especially true of the left. I would
ask list members on both sides of this recent conflict to transcend this
tendency and accept each other as members of the left rather than as "the
enemy".
I know doing this is not easy, but it is better than letting the discussion
of Marx fragment once more.
Steve
At 06:01 AM 12/03/2002 Tuesday, you wrote:
>I am very sorry to see Alan go--now that Alan and Duncan are gone, OPE has
>lost two of its most brilliant truly Marxian contributors whose early
>exchanges were as stimulating as anything I have ever read in Marxism
>cyber space. Gil is also exceptionally stimulating but his loss does not
>damage the project of the development of Marxian political economy (and
>one still gets to rid Gil at pen-l). Alan's and Duncan's departures do.
>
>
>
>Friendly relations had broken down; Alan wanted to organize the
>destruction of the list and Jerry did not then honor Alan's wish that his
>internal document in which said intention was explicitly stated remain
>unseen by the rest of us.
>
>
>Paul Z writes:
>
>
>>Jerry,
>>
>>1) When you received the mis-sent email, you had the option of using the
>>'delete' key. You didn't. You didn't post it either. Rather, you
>>offered us 'bait' to ask you for it. I did NOT ask and will not ask as I
>>don't like this kind of thing. Nevertheless, was the original email
>>sender told TO WHOM you have forwarded the mis-sent email (or is he or she
>>to be left forever in the dark as to whom in the world has received the
>>mis-sending and who hasn't)?
>
>Alan did discourage Jerry from circulating this internal discussion
>document in part because he thought it may be prejudical to the intended
>recepients, but did in no uncertain terms tell Jerry that it was his
>decision as to whether to circulate it. It was clear however that Alan
>would have preferred that Jerry did not post it to the list. I know this
>because Jerry forwarded his offlist discussion with Alan to Allin and me.
>
>Alan wanted to organize a boycott for the list, it seems to me, because
>Jerry would not accept Andrew K's demand that Jerry apologize to Andrew
>for having breached his security. Jerry said that he would accept Andrew
>back on the list-- as Jerry first and I later recommended--if a. Andrew
>simply asked Jerry and b.Andrew told Jerry privately that he Andrew agrees
>to the list rules as long as other list members are so bound.
>
>I had been one of the OPE members who thought that Andrew should have to
>apologize for his better watch your step comment or simply for any
>misunderstanding that had resulted from it. But Jerry did not care about
>this, so I saw no reason why I should.
>
>Alan agreed that this was a reasonable compromise for it seemed to involve
>no loss of face for anyone. Jerry told Alan to have Andrew carry out.
>
>For reasons I do not understand, discussion broke down. Alan suggested
>that Andrew had already carried it out, but Andrew seemed to me to be
>asking for an apology from Jerry while Jerry was not asking for an apology
>from Andrew.
>
>It seems obvious that Alan wanted to organize a boycott of the list by the
>TSS school and Jerry thought the list should know. Alan's boycott threat
>was not friendly , and Jerry's circulation of a note that Alan would have
>preferred remained private was not friendly.
>
>I suppose that Alan will take my discussion of this on list as unfriendly,
>but I have nothing but admiration for Alan as well as John E and Paolo. I
>have learned a great deal from Andrew and have said so on the internet and
>even in published form. I do not understand why he did not take the
>compromise that Jerry, Alan and I allthought was reasonable?
>
>
>Rakesh
>
>
>
>>
>>2) Do you agree with Alan's request that this whole thread be kept off the
>>list's archives ("I request the archive coordinator to remove all
>>references to this correspondence from the archives...")? If not, why
>>not?
>>
>>Paul Z.
>>
>>P.S. Please do NOT send me that mis-sent email in any type of reply.
>>
>>*************************************************************************
>>Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at
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