This is all amazing! What is going on and why are people so sensitive? I have just been removed from a CPE group that I have been attending and contributing to in London for some time - immediately after I had given a paper on th elabour aristocracy and imerialism - on the grounds that the organiser and some other people didn't like my approach to Marxism. No discussion, no warning just a dissolution of the group and a reconstitution without me. A few of those in the group, as well as the organiser, have been contributing to the latest discussion in OPE-L re disputes etc. I find their contributions mind blowing in the circumstances. Some I have written to in order to find out if they knew I had been written out of the new group. They have not even had the courtesy to reply. I always find those who dislike real commitment to Marxism so incredibly intolerant of views they disagree with. But that's life. For my part I value committed discussion - as Marxists we are not academics after all but committed people who want to change the world... Conflict is inevitable and healthy... David Yaffe
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