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Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Open Letter to Vivek Chibber

Dear Professor Chibber,

I have established that you were the person who interrupted me during the discussion period during the workshop on Neil Davidson’s new book on the bourgeois revolution this morning at the Historical Materialism conference at NYU. I didn’t quite hear what you were saying, but it sounded something like “What is your question…get to the point.”

Of the three workshops I attended today, not a single chairperson said something along those uncharitable lines. By and large, people made much longer comments than me and far more in the name of some sect–the sort of thing that wastes time.

It was all the more unexpected to hear this from you since you were not a chairperson, number one, and number two you were going to be speaking at a closing plenary session on Sunday night to an audience of hundreds. Frankly, I thought it was very petty for you to interrupt me in that manner considering the power you exercise both at NYU in your capacity as associate professor and as someone who has written dozens of articles in places like the HM journal or NLR on the questions under debate. You couldn’t wait for me to complete my 3 minute intervention while you have had the opportunity to defend your ideas on the Brenner thesis to a broad swath of the left community owing to your hard earned intellectual capital as a recipient of many highly coveted and prestigious awards.

I honestly don’t know why you walked out immediately after making your remarks because I would have liked to take them up with you face to face. Don’t worry, I have no interest in taking them up with you any further since I have said all I have to say at this point on the Marxism mailing list. My only advice is not to pull this bullshit on me ever again or you will truly regret it.

Yours truly,

Louis Proyect
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dont you EVER pull this bullshit on me again, chibber. you have been warned.
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Kurdt
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chibbered again
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Mike Nelson here.
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i love proyect because he's a character.
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He's the unrepentant marxist.
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ahahahaha

http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/snail-mail-to-robert-de-niro/
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If I ever run into you on the street, Bobby, I am going to tell you this to your face. With your fucking connections to Jonathan Tisch and your idiotic red tape and your bourgeois red carpets, you can take your fucking film festival and stick it up your ass.


catchphrase?

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NOW THATS SOME SHIT
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Mike Nelson here.
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i made a joke about proyect being reformist and his reply was to say i looked like a pig
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the married life of louis proyect

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getfiscal posted:

i made a joke about proyect being reformist and his reply was to say i looked like a pig

owned

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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you do NOT fuck with the St. Louis Projects
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...on the mailing list
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discipline posted:

there need to be female only / POC only spaces within leftist orgs imo



Haha...radfems always use that word "female" to implicitly exclude trans women - and consider them lesser in every way...but if you use the word "female" in any other context they will attack you as a misogynistic bigot - though not as violently as the pouncing trannies that hide in female bathrooms right?

it appears your gimmick is over sadly

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PissedOffTranny posted:

discipline posted:

there need to be female only / POC only spaces within leftist orgs imo

Haha...radfems always use that word "female" to implicitly exclude trans women - and consider them lesser in every way...but if you use the word "female" in any other context they will attack you as a misogynistic bigot - though not as violently as the pouncing trannies that hide in female bathrooms right?

pouncing trannies is my favorite grunge-thrash band

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PissedOffTranny posted:

discipline posted:

there need to be female only / POC only spaces within leftist orgs imo

Haha...radfems always use that word "female" to implicitly exclude trans women - and consider them lesser in every way...but if you use the word "female" in any other context they will attack you as a misogynistic bigot - though not as violently as the pouncing trannies that hide in female bathrooms right?



HaHa...

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hEh
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Zinovievist-Trotskyist gang
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so how was the chibber-whoever debate at the end? any other impressions of the conference?

thankx
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Silvia Federici (52:40) and some other ppl. Italians are so expressive
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whats HMNY2013
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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fape posted:

whats HMNY2013



a forum for avant-garde filmmakers, predominately those whose work deals with issues of youth, violence, and sexuality. formerly known as KorineFest 2012

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toy posted:

so how was the chibber-whoever debate at the end? any other impressions of the conference?

thankx



I missed sunday, but discipline has some recordings. Dunno anyone that stayed foe the chibber-homie debates, but that was a biggie, so it sjould float up (your posts)

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Khamsek lay in her bed of fur, dreaming. Not until the sun burned through her window, infusing the light wood and flesh colors of her chamber in a milky glow did she open her eyes. It was quiet and serene, a stunning reverse of the flavor of her dreams, so full of blood and celebration. For a few moments, she simply stared at the ceiling, trying to sort through her visions.

In the courtyard of her palace was a boiling pool which steamed in the coolness of the winter morning. At the wave of her hand, it cleared and she saw the face and form of her lover Vivek in his study to the north. She did not want to speak right away: he looked so handsome in his dark red robes, writing his poetry as he did every morning.

“Vivek,” she said, and he raised his head in a smile, looking at her face across thousands of miles. “I have seen a vision of the end of the war.”

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discipline posted:

this is me when I walked into the "revisiting the 70's in feminism" panel

give us the goss'

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political car tune
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discipline posted:

I was led by tweets on a history of soviet motherhood but by the time I got there out was about how prostitutes are responsible for reproducing the working class"sexually"


Stalin's 'Stache: Soviet Socialist Sexy Stud

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has the phrase been caught?
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Fuck you and fuck the Tribeca Film Festival.
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discipline posted:

this is me when I walked into the "revisiting the 70's in feminism" panel

http://www.animateit.net/data/media/june2010/svi6ir.gif



i mean what did feminists even DO back then, before the internet? march in the streets? engage in direct action? effect actual, worthwhile political change?? lol fuck that ish, GRANDMA

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tpaine posted:

they probably listened to a lot of prog



it was actually weirder stuff like this

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discipline posted:

I was here


here is a pdf of her revolution at point zero book that i bought with money

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Here's the book I'm working on with Louis proyect