From: Paul Cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 13:48:33 EDT
Quoting David Yaffe <david@DANYAF.PLUS.COM>: > Paul, > > I have no idea what is happening to MIA. Personally I find it a very > important source of material. However you cannot get away with your > gratuitous insult against Che Guevara. Che was a Marxist of international > standing who had a deep knowledge of Marx's Capital and wrote an important > critique of the Soviet Manual of Political Economy, so contributing very > significant theoretical insights to our understanding of the process of > constructing socialism. Orthodox Marxists cannot be equated with > 'Stalinists' either. Neither Castro nor Guevara are/were Stalinists. > Perhaps this kind of comment reflects the appalling state of the left > movement in imperialist countries, but one expects higher standards in > OPE-L to be maintained. I dont use the term Stalinist as an insult. From what I can gather Che held Stalin in high regard, and insisted in planting flowers on his grave when visiting Moscow, some what to the embarasment of the Cuban ambassador. > > David Yaffe > > 'At 22:13 04/05/2007 +0100, you wrote: > >Has the Marxist internet archive been taken over by the SWP or some > >similar Trotskyist sect? > > > >The content of the archive seems to have changed significantly recently. > >There are now a large number of relatively minor American and British > >Trotkyists included, which is probably fair enough, but what is > >more insidious is that orthodox communist writers are being > >systematically dropped from the index. > > > >Mao, Chou-en-lai, Stalin, Castro have all be edited out of the main web > >site index. Geuvara is the only orthodox communist or Stalinist still > >retained in the index - presumably because his romantic appeal is > >taken to redeem his Stalinism. > > > >Whoever is running the archive now is airbrushing out politically > >unacceptable marxists just as was done in the USSR, all that has > >changed is the particuluar set of marxists who are deemed unacceptable. > > > >Paul Cockshott > > > >www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc > >reality.gn.apc.org > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > Paul Cockshott www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc reality.gn.apc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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