Re: outside and aganist the unions

Date: 11th Aug '01

Name: M. Foucault

Austin do you work at being an arrogant bastard or does it come naturally. Have a listen to yourself just for a moment:

'That various nationalists from Stalin to Mao to Liam Mellows have wrapt the red flag around them and called themselves communists is a product of several things from the counter-revolution in Russia to the weakness of the native bourgeiouse in the capitialist "fringes"- but none of them have stood for the programme i have tried to encapsulate above.'

So they don't measure up to your encapsulated programme; is that meant to be a serious comment on how we're meant to judge the worth or otherwise of these attempts at socialist construction. I'm not convinced the yard stick provided by such an obviously self opionated individual is the best that the working class can do, are you?

Also I just can't let your closing comment go without some reply:

'Any communist in the IRA of the 1920s was either a traitor or a nationalist in workers clothing.'

Well that's sorted then - so glad you're here to put us straight.

I can sort of see the appeal of living in your own little world where you know the answers, confident in your correcteness. What is it with autonomist such as yourself that you end up being the worst sort of intellectual elitists; in fact not at all unlike the vanguard party marxist- leninists you denounce so vehmently?

I'm sure a 'telling reply' will be sent but I'm not biting anymore; you can only talk to someone who is simultaneously shouting and wearing earplugs for so long.

Bye Michel

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