[Marxism] Moderator's note

[David Thorstad]

Huh? And this after both Fred Feldman and Walter Lippmann have recently 
compared me to a Nazi because of my opposition to same-sex marriage (ven 
if it was a "left" Nazi in Feldman's case)! I note that prior to my 
"sharp" comment, the word "shit" was used to describe Walter. I have 
never resorted to name calling (as Walter has), and, frankly, do not 
consider my comment to be overly "sharp." The jist of my post was that 
it doesn't matter who you vote for in the phoney baloney capitalist 
charade of "elections," and urging a vote for the top Democrat is worthy 
of comparison to Kautsky. Here, some wisdom from Lenin's /The 
Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky/ (1918--90 years ago): 
Elections "*never* *decide* important questions under bourgeois 
democracy, which are decided by the stock exchange and banks."
    That said, I do hope my comments don't lead to "flame wars." That 
was not not my intention at all.
David
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Louis Proyect wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed">David wrote:
>> Judging from the rank reformism rampant on this list, I take Walter's
>> advice here as further confirmation of how far some former Marxists have
>> sunk into liberalism. The very idea that the highly undemocratic
>> "choice" offered by the criminal American ruling class merits a vote for
>> an open warmonger like His Saintliness suggests a surrender that's right
>> up there with the "renegade Kautsky."
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> Comrades are certainly entitled to their views on this question, but 
> we must refrain from these kinds of characterizations. A mailing list 
> is a rather "confined" space and sharp language such as this can lead 
> to the kinds of flame wars that destroyed a list that preceded this one.
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