[Marxism] I am open to be proven wrong.

[Jeff Rubard]

Shane Mage wrote:

>
> Jeff Rubard wrote:
> >Mark Lause wrote:
> >"...an abiding faith that, once a Democrat, always a Democrat.
> >Apparently, to not be a Democratic, you have to be born into the
> >movement like Bonnie.
> >  How utterly Hohenzollern of her!"
> >
> >When someone's comments are so outre to make me cringe, that's
> >really saying something. The last line of this message is the kind
> >of "ethnic comedy" that always sounds a lot funnier to people with
> >"safe" backgrounds.
>
> I agree that Mark would have done better not to use such a recondite
> reference on a list where some people apparently think that "Hohenzollern"
> is a Jewish name.  He should have used something more currently
> apposite. Like, say, "How socialist (with Chinese characteristics) of
> her."



I am not so expert in the ways of espying Semites that I could say
offhand someone with the name "Weinstein" was definitely Jewish (nor
do I plan to develop such capacities). But it's definitely a German
name, and it would be a pretty piece of *Frechheit* to match a
American Jew of German extraction with the "appropriate" monarchy;
even "playfully" exploring the Middle European brooding (or French
hotheadedness -- or African primitivism, Asian inscrutability?) of
a Gentile with a questionable surname is historically a bosses' game
that adds little to substantive debate. "Bourbon" would indeed have
made the same point better.

As for the issue, I said McKinney was radioactive and I meant it:
her behavior has been too polarizing for any radical policy
arguments to get a halfway-fair hearing in the press. I followed her
career as a member of the House with interest and sympathy, but effort
expended on a campaign for higher office will be wasted, even (perhaps
especially) from a "long perspective" of trying to energize and unify
left-wing constituencies separately from the DP.

Jeff Rubard