nice letter. I would like to add only two things. One on a possible disagreement with Andrea Vitale. May be that he is thinking that, being Marx associated with his first way of doing criticism (which may include derisions aand all that), this would be a good argument in favour of this style of personalised attacks. if this is what Andrea V. thinks, I disagree. he knows that, because I wrote this to him some time ago, after the special issue of Operai Contro appeared. Second: I have a strong agreement with his thesis that his 'first way' is much better than the second one, to impute opponent positions or point of view s/he had never expressed. In the recent book edited by Vasapollo this is just what happens in several essays - I am one of those who are depicted in a highly creative way, but I'm not the only one (another one is Napoleoni, but there are, I think, many others). This is simply to say that there may be ways of being apparently polite in discussions while actually vilifing opponents. But on this in the future I intend to write something more 'official', so at present I stop here. -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: bellofio@unibg.it, bellofio@cisi.unito.it direct +39-035-277545 secretary +39-035 277501 fax: +39 035 277549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/dse/homebellofiore.htm
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