• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I followed a link from another site (marxism-leninism-project)
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• Hey - is this a trotskyist-page or something?
• [public e-mail address ?]
  
• mbismo@geocities.com
• [public web site ?]
  
• www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4895/index.html
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
• I think the most important issue is to get rid of dogmas and religiousity which I find much of in for instance the trotskyist organization SWP of Great Britain. We'll have to work out a theory for our time, and not blindly adopt the theories of anyone - either it is Lenin, Trotsky or Mao. We must use marxist-leninist-theory as a tool to create our revolutionary movement, we must not take its solutions as a fact. There is no recipe of a revolution - it has been created neither by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Castro, Mao or whoever.
• [Principal obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
• The most important thing is not to let what happens in other countries and things which have happened in the past divide us. We must learn to discuss rather than throwing phrases towards each other. Because we must remember - the revolutionary marxist-leninist spirit does not develop by divisions. That's the law of dialectics.
• [Questions ?]
  
• What is most important - today or yesterday, your own revolutionary area or areas where others work?
• [Websites to link to ?]
  
• http://www.angelfire.com/ak/GrenlandRU/index.html
• [Review of the above Website ?]
  
• This is the site of Grenland Rød Ungdom (Red Youth), a division of Rød Ungdom in Norway. Our politics are based on marxism-leninism. Here you'll find manifestos from the organization - both local and central ones. It also includes links to lots of progressive sites.
• [Improvements ?]
  
• Well, comrades, I've made it actually - but I'd most like to learn more html. Mail me about it.
• Thanks Joseph for your comments. In answer to your question I am not and have never been a Trotskyist. I used to be, however, a Stalinist. The organization which I supported, the MLP-USA (dissolved as of 1993), originally, like many groups, supported Mao Zedong. When Albania split with China, in 1978, we sided with Albania. When Albania concluded that Mao was a revisionist--we studied Enver Hoxha's books on the matter and relatively quickly agreed. At that time, our view was that the Soviet Union went off the track following Stalin's death in 1953 and that the big showdown was the November 1960 Moscow meeting of 81 communist and workers parties.

  Over the years, however, we felt that theoretical weaknesses within the anti-revisionist movement had to be looked into and by 1982 or so we concluded that Stalin had made a number of impermissable concessions to imperialism (and imperialist ideology) in the period following the end of World War II. At that time we still thought that the young Stalin was OK.

  As our investigation developed (over the years) we concluded that there were serious problems in the way the 1939 non-aggression pact with Hitler was concluded. It was more than a non-aggression pact and in certain ways was more like an alliance. Finally, by 1986 or so, we felt that we had traced the problems back to the 7th Congress of the CI in 1935 (The "United Front Against Fascism"). This appeared to be when the international communist movement began to degenerate at a fairly rapid rate. Certainly, we found, this was when the CPUSA began to degenerate and hook its fate to the tail end of Roosevelt's Democratic Party.

  As we came closer to the source of the problem, however, our progress became more difficult. I believe the reason was that our investigation would have showed that Stalin opposed Marxism and the interests of the working class as early as 1924 when he converted Lenin's views on the necessity to suppress factions in the party--from a series of unfortunate and dangerous measures to deal with a dire emergency--to a religious principle designed to permanently suppress opposing views in the Bolshevik party.

  I believe that such a conclusion threatened the material position of the man at the center of our party, Joseph Green, who forsaw that one of the conclusions of our investigation would be that our monolithic and highly centralized organizational structure was no longer necessary and did not conform to the needs of our organization or our mission of serving the proletariat. Such a restructuring of our organization--as would have inevitably followed from this--would have undermined the basis of this individual as a paid, full-time party worker. Rather than face up to this with courage and honesty, however, this person succumbed to the pressure of wanting to remain a supported "full-time revolutionary" and in pursuit of this aim, degenerated into charlatanism. Nor were there others in our organization with the courage and clarity of vision to stand up to this and prevent what would of necessity follow as the night follows day. Such, anyhow, are my views.

  What is a fact is that my organization proved to be too weak to resolve its internal contradictions or reach conclusions on these theoretical matters. Instead it broke up amidst bitter and very unprincipled infighting marked by pronounced sectarianism and a general lack of clarity.

  It may be a suprise to some, but as our opinion of Stalin went down, our opinion of Trotsky did not go up much. It may have been very wrong and undemocratic for Stalin to murder Trotsky--but this did not make Trotsky a man of extraordinary theoretical clarity. Rather, like many in a very confusing period, Trotsky seems to have lost his way. Some of his insights were brilliant and profound while others were stupid and shallow.

  I believe the period of confusion ushered in with the death of comrade Lenin will end relatively soon. One factor here is the demise of the Soviet revisionist empire--which has shocked many "communists" who had their heads inserted into their hindside orifices--and may help many of them to sober up just a bit. Another factor (at least as important in my view anyhow) is the current communications revolution which is still in its earliest phase. One result of this is that it is now vastly easier for progressive people to talk to one another about matters such as this (ie: this web-based discussion for example, which has only recently become possible).

  Joseph, I like your comments very much. You say we can't blindly adopt the theories of anyone--but must actually think for ourselves ? The religious sectarians would never approve of this. What are you--some kind of atheist ?

  Ben -- Seattle -- 1 Jan 97

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I followed a link from another site: http://www.rifondazione.it
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• Fantastic !
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• This site is really wonderful and a great experience for me and my wife
• [Principle obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
  
• Reformism and stupidity
• Thanks very much Zagor. You made my day.
  Ben -- Seattle -- 22 Dec 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I followed a link from another site
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• You guys are bozos
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• This appears to be a revisionist, child-like simplification of Marxism- Leninism. Furthermore, you completely ignore the important developments in Marxist theory of the past 50 years, many of which deal directly with issues like information technology and commodification of consciousness. The Frankfurt school (Marcuse, Horkheimer, etc.) and Habermas deal with some of the problems of reification in modern "technological" society. I recommend you include information on these authors and other contemporary Communists.
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• Hegemonic, fetishized consciousness conditioned by consumerism.

• Ben replies:

  Well, friend, I appreciate your comments but I think you may be getting off on the wrong foot.

  Last time I checked, this site gets about 50 or 60 visitors a week. Probably a third of them check out this forum. Most of these readers have likely never heard about the "Frankfurt school". So their first impression of it will come from reading your remarks. And I somehow doubt that most who read your comments on the Frankfurt school will be very impressed.

  Why ?

  Because, irrespective of the strengths or weaknesses of the Frankfurt school, you come off sounding like something of a know-it-all.

  Readers might get the impression that you know the truth about these matters (or think you do, anyway) but are, unfortunately, too important and too busy to share it with the rest of us poor, ignorant fools.

  You call the cyberLeninist Manifesto a "revisionist over-simplification of Marxism-Leninism" but you don't seem to get around to explaining how it is revisionist, other than that, in attempting to summarize the development of 80 years of marxist theory in 1500 words, it makes the unpardonable mistake of failing to mention your particular favorite school of thought.

  Now the cyberLeninist Manifesto may be a revision of marxism. Or it may not. But if you believe you have some kind of scientific argument to present against it--or in favor of the Frankfurt school--then you should present this argument here in this public forum instead of relying on the method of assertion (ie: it must be true because some anonymous guy in the cyberLeninist forum said it was true).

  Here is what I suggest: If you believe that the Frankfurt school is so gosh-darn important--give us a link to web site which summarises for us in a clear way the many important contributions of Marcuse, Horkheimer, Habermas and other "contemporary communists" and which will explain in simple, understandable language what "reification" means (terms like this may sound impressive when thrown around in slacker coffeehouses located near liberal arts colleges--but in my experience most often represent obscurantism by people who want to sound important).

  Or--if such a web site does not exist--then create one. People like me can help you. It would not have to cost you a dime. Nor would it require any particular technical expertise. All it would require is the courage of one's convictions.

  By some coincidence, the "Marxism-International" ListServ portion of the Spoon's Marxism space featured some discussion of the Frankfurt school in the past week.

  I clipped 7 of the posts and put them together in a page here for reference by anyone who may be curious about the Frankfurt school.

  The lead post describes the Frankfurt school as an "attack on Marxism" which denies that class struggle is the "locomotive of history". I am not familar enough with the Frankfurt school to know if this is true. Sometimes a school of thought (or a theoretical work) is misused and abused by people who seem to like it--but don't actually understand it (witness the incredible garbage being spewed in the name of "Marxism").

  Here is what the lead post says:

  "The American student movement fell in love with another Frankfurter text, Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man. Activists held up these texts to explain why American workers supported the war in Vietnam or why German workers seemed more interested in the consumer culture than in fighting against the capitalists."

  Unfortunately many works like this tended to downplay the class nature of the struggle over culture. I have always thought, however, that such analysis of culture, whatever its weaknesses, can still be of enormous value.

  In the chapter "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" of the "Dialectics of Enlightenment" it is said that Donald Duck cartoons:

  "hammer into every brain the old lesson that continuous friction, the breaking down of all individual resistance, is the condition of life in this society. Donald Duck in the cartoons and the unfortunate in real life get their thrashing so that the audience can learn to take their own punishment."

  But the bottom line is this: the emerging technologies such as the web are rapidly becoming cheaper and easier to use--and will inevitably become weapons in the hands of the masses to fight "hegemonic, fetishized consciousness conditioned by consumerism".

  The issue is to use these weapons and learn the tactics by which the organized masses can use them to fight for the hegemony of ideas which serve the workers and oppressed in all countries.

  Ben -- Seattle -- 22 Dec 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I followed a link from another site
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• You guys are bozos
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• you wouldn't know marxism leninism if it drove a bus up your backside and blew the horn
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• the way the workers revolution will come about will not be through sending email to some dweeb on the internet. it will only come about when capitalism reaches such a stage that the true nature of the system becomes apparent to the working class and they apply revolutionary force in order to overthrow it. who knows when this will happen, but if you had an even rudimentary understanding of the dialectic, you wouldn't have to ask such a moronic question.
• [Principle obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
  
• 1 [ie: Reformism], & 2 [ie: Sectarianism].
  3 [ie: Repression] will not be a problem in the long run as no amount of effort by the capitalists will be able to prevent the working class from fulfilling their historical mission.
  4 [ie: Ideological confusion] is only a problem because of deviationists such as you.
  Putting 5 [ie: Stupidity: human nature, etc.] in as an option just shows the contempt which you and other trotskyites have deep down for the intelligence of working people

• [Ben replies 12-17-96]

  It is said that if you step on the tail of a dog it will yelp.
  Nothing to worry about folks. This dog cannot bite. It can only bark.
  These comments are quite valuable because they illustrate for readers what an impotent, know-it-all blowhard sounds like.

  Such know-it-alls are unable to stand and fight for their views in an uncensored forum but can only "fling shit and flee".

  This person appears to have a view that a modern society run by workers would actually be a repressive police state that would tell everyone how they are supposed to think and would not allow anyone to express their political views or openly oppose sleazy corruption, hypocrisy and incompetence in government officials. This is how Stalin managed affairs. How wonderful!

  Such "orthodox Marxist-Leninist" views (which identify "communism" with the "thought police") can only serve the bourgeoisie by reinforcing the anti-communist views of others (see post #22 where Brian opposes the efforts of the "communist" Chinese government to "protect" the Chinese people from exposure to the ideas from the rest of humanity [or even from ideas originating in China] by restricting access to the web).

  Brian is 100% right to oppose this censorship.

  How about you?

  If you are so smart, most wise and knowledgeable sir, please tell us whether you oppose or condemn the efforts of the Chinese government to shut off or restrict access to the web ?

  In response to another know-it-all Stalinist (see post #5) who accused me of being a "trot" and "serving the bourgeoisie" I wrote The Digital Fire, which explores this question and concludes that the workers' dictatorship in the 21st century will NOT censor the internet. And I challenged him (and I now challenge you) to offer some kind of scientific counter-argument that might oppose this conclusion. But the earlier know-it-all did not respond and I doubt you will either. Why ? Because

  1. your views are bankrupt and cannot be defended
     in an open forum in full view of the world, and
  2. you don't have a backbone.

  Am I calling you "yellow" ? Could be.

  I note that you are from Australia. I hear a new product has been developed there that could help people like you: a strap-on-spine.

• [A Further comment by Ben 12-31-96]

  Readers who check out the exit poll will see that the infamous "option 5" (ie: "stupidity, human nature, etc") was one of a number of possible responses to the question of why the various groups on the left which claim to be communists generally fail to cooperate with one another and instead act like

  • (a) children, or
  • (b) religious zealots
  in their attitude toward one another.

  I have two points in response:

  1. The questionaire is for the purpose of investigating the opinions and attitudes of our readers. This can help to guage the political maturity of our readership as well as to stimulate discussion. This means the questionaire asks readers what they think rather than tells them what the are supposed to think. Otherwise it would not be a questionaire but an expression of my views, of which there is certainly no shortage at this site. As long as a significant section of our readership believes that stupidity is a factor in the failure of left groups to cooperate--then it would seem to make sense to have it in a poll designed to elicit their real thinking.

  2. Our "Child of Stalin" fails to distinguish between stupidity as:
     • a description of the masses of the working people, and
     • a description of clowns on the left who imagine themselves to be communists.

     There is quite a distinction.

     Just to illustrate this: note that our "Child of Stalin" considers it to be a "moronic question" to ask people about and try to develop discussion about "the most important problems facing the movement to overthrow capitalism". Hence, he appears to be opposed to even discussing this on an electronic forum. Talk about a lack of confidence that the communications revolution will assist in sorting out the problems of the communist movement!

     Instead of using the communications revolution today to conduct propaganda and agitation about the nature of the capitalist system--our "child of Stalin" would appear to believe we should wait until that great day in the future when "capitalism reaches such a stage" that its "true nature ... becomes apparent". This is the theory which excuses passivity today by blaming the failure of "objective conditions" (ie: "capitalism has not yet reached such a stage so--what can we possibly do?").

     Ideology, as well as a deeply ingrained tradition of sectarianism, is behind such impotent outbursts from our brave "Child of Stalin". But might not this look like, to many people, a good example of "stupidity" ?

• [Websites to link to ?]
  
• http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4571/
• [Review of the above Website ?]
  
• A great web site!!!! A place for Communists to kick up their feet, enjoy some recent new items and enjoy a glass of Vodka.
• Ben replies:
  I finally had a chance to check out your site. I like your site, but not the "Modern Communism" booklet to which you give such prominence. I am very familiar with the author, Mr. Hardial Bains. In my view, he is a complete, 100% pure charlatan.
  Ben -- Seattle -- 25 Dec 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I did a search
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• You guys are bozos
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• Why use diffrent colors to emphasize a word? It looks like a mess. And Leninism? Please..You can try to dress it up as prettily as you want but, emergency and temporary measures? Repression by any other name would be just as evil. Communism in any form has proved to be a disaster in every country it's implemented. China is trying to block out certain web sites. That's insane! To be so afraid of a thought?!? Of the written word! When will you fools realize what a backward and oppressive obstacle communism is to the human spirit and mind.
• [public e-mail address and web site ?]
  
• e-mail: bakenegg@mcs.com - web site: http://streams.com/brian
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• Your biggest problem is communism. It's the cave man in the evolutionary chain of economy and goverment.
• [Questions ?]
  
• Why hasn't it worked? You had seventy years and many countries to experiment with and all you did was collapse.
• [Websites to link to ?]
  
• http://web.sunbelt.net/~dolemite/PAGEONE.HTM [Note: requires browser that supports frames]
• [Review of the above Website ?]
  
• The way it ought to be.
• [Improvements ?]
  
• sell ad space.
• Ben replies: Thanks Brian for your comments. I believe they are very useful in many ways. Davoc (post #20) suggests that many "communists" avoid dealing with the "common questions". I agree with him. The fact that the Chinese government is afraid of the internet certainly tends to show that they are afraid of and do not trust their own people. This helps to show that the people in charge in China are not communists at all. They may call themselves communists. But they could also call themselves angels and this would not make them angels. More to the point, most organizations around the world that call themselves "communist" will not deal with the attitude of the dictatorship of the proletariat toward the internet. Is it in the interest of workers that a single-point-of-control censor the internet ? This is a very common question also. And it will get more common.
  Readers: check out the cyberLeninist view of this in The Digital Fire.
  Ben -- Seattle -- 16 Dec 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I did a search
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• I'm not sure yet
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• Thank you for your site. Rather than avoiding some of the common questions along the lines of "Why, if Marxism is so good did the Russian revolution fail so miserably." You attempt to give an explanation of the situation which plays close attention to the facts, without prejudice one way or another.
• [public e-mail address ?]
  
• d.j.hearn@dundee.ac.uk
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• It seems the major problem is the lack of a concioussness by workers of themselves as a class! This has become ever more remote an issue.
• Thanks, Davoc, for your supportive comments. I appreciate them. Communist theory today is in great crisis and is pretty much bankrupt in the eyes of most people. This is not all the doings of the bourgeoisie. Many "communists" have for too long avoided dealing with or even thinking about the "common questions". The result is that there is today little difference between most "communist theory" and an open sewer. I believe a big clean-up is long overdue. Fortunately the communications revolution will help to make such a clean-up possible.
  Ben -- Seattle -- 16 Dec 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I followed a link from another site
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• Pretty cool
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• I THINK THAT ALL WORK DONE FOR SPREADING THE LEFT IS GOOD IN SOME WAY!!! AND THAT'S IT!
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• THAT PEOPLE IN GENERAL ARE TOO CONCERNED WITH THEIR OWN PRIVATE LIFE AND DON'T CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD.
• [Principle obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
  
• 5. [ie: category 5] EGOISM!
• [Questions ?]
  
• ISN'T POWER WRONG, ALL POWER?
• LIBERATION!
• I BELIVE IN POWER FOR NO ONE. ALL HUMANS SHOULD BE FREE TO LIVE AS THEY PLEASE AS LONG AS THEY DON'T INTERFER WITH OTHERS' LIVES AGAINST THEIR WILL. RESPECT FOR ALL LIVING CREATURES AND NO HIERARCHY! ANARCHISM SIMPLY.

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• Heard about this site from a friend
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• I'm not sure yet
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• information being monopolized by the corporations
• [Principle obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
  
• Repression, Ideological confusion, Sectarianism in that order..
• [Websites to link to ?]
  
• http://www.interport.net/~beecee

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I followed a link from another site (The Marxism-Leninism Project)
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• I'm not sure yet
• [What are your impressions of this site and the cyberLeninist Manifesto ?]
  
• I think that the format of such a large page is a little annoying. Also, I think the site should better linked. Many people reading this would want more info on Marxism-Leninism as well as Russian history. It was very understandable to me, but I'm already familiar with both.
• [public e-mail address ?]
  
• matthew@hooked.net
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• the fact that the Left is collapsing and has been delegitimized as a political viewpoint in the US.
• [Principle obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
  
• sectarianism, repression, ideological confusion
• [Improvements ?]
  
• more links, more pages, images, shorter blocks of text
• Ben replies: You and others have complained about the format of my site. I tend to be glacially slow to recognize correct criticisms but because so many complained (including my girlfriend Nala) I have reorganized it a bit. Hopefully it is better now and not worse. I will reorganize it further and try to improve it as I find time. I appreciate (and need) guidance from readers although I will probably always be slow to recognize and act on it.
  Ben -- Seattle -- 16 Dec 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I did a search
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• I'm not sure yet
• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• The one-sidedness in theory
• [Principle obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
  
• Stalinism and Sectarianism
• Thanks, Che, for your views. I would like to make a comment. The masses will eventually be drawn into the struggle against sectarianism (and its partner-in-crime, reformism). We can all help to make this easier by trying to give good, concise examples (drawn from our own experience) of these diseases. As descriptions accumulate, we could even set aside a separate page for vivid, humorous or disgusting stories about these phenomena. Everyone who has experience in revolutionary politics has a story (or two) they could tell. Hey, folks: this is the place to do it. Let's hear from you!
  Ben -- Seattle -- 15 Nov 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I followed a link from another site: Other Marxist Sites on the Web (ie: The Marxism-Leninism Project)
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• Fantastic !
• Thanks very much Ladoga,
  Ben -- Seattle -- 7 Nov 96

• [How did you find this site ?]
  
• I did a search on marxism-leninism
• [How would you rate this site ?]
  
• Fantastic !
• [Comments]
  
• This is a good attempt to reorganize a neo-communism, I hope that all marxists will enjoy the new electronic highway of communication. The marxists shouldn't be last to connect the Internet.

  Ola Eriksson Flamman BBS Sweden Fido@(2:205/624)
  e-mail: olae@interact.se

• [Most important problems facing movement to overthrow capitalism ?]
  
• 1) To build a international network, and a electronic newspaper
  2) Reconstruction of all organizations
  3) A new neocommunistic ideology, based on a development of communism,
  not a new revision of it
  4) Stop the Secret services registrations of communists and progressive peoples' opinions. If the leftists are never going to understand who their enemy really is, and the methods and goals he has, the leftists are never going to win.
• [Principle obstacles to cooperation between the various groups ?]
  
• number 4 [ie: ideological confusion] I guess is the major problem. Nowadays anarchism is the leading leftist ideology. Marxism-Leninism, which has an enormous treasure of ideological knowledge and experience, is not used nowadays in the struggle and analysis of the class war. The reason can be that after the fall of soviet the revisionists took over and paralysed the ideology.
• [Questions ?]
  
• Reconstruction of the ideology, and a electronic newspaper or mailing list about such discussions. Do you have any addresses to such mailing lists ?
• [Improving this site ?]
  
• :-) this one is great..
• Ben replies (4 Nov)

  You have the longest pseudonym I have ever seen. Thanks for your comments.
  You are the first to give this site a "fantastic" rating.
  I will try to reply to you in this space very soon.

  Ben replies (24 Dec)

  Well first off, I would like to apologize for taking so long to reply to you. It was nearly two months ago that you left your comments at my web site on the need for an electronic newspaper to serve the left.

  I have been quite swamped between my web work and my attempts to maintain my "day job". I consider correspondence to be very important--but have had to postpone this. My "cyberLeninism" site is fairly stable right now and I am at last in a mode where I can write to people just a bit.

  Two items:

  1) You asked about addresses for mailing lists.

  In the "Links" section of my site, under "discussion" is the URL for the Spoon's "Marxism Space" at:

  • http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/marxism/

  The best of the ListServ's on it appears to be "Marxism-International", which generates an average of about 100 KBytes a day of e-mail. I have been reading it more-or-less non-stop since the beginning of November. I plan to post to it eventually since it is read by a large number of people (probably about 200) who either consider themselves to be Marxists or are interested in Marxism.

  2) You asked about an electronic newspaper to serve the left.

  I have a number of ideas here but I don't have time to go into them all now.

  Briefly, I intend to create (or help create) such a newspaper/database of electronic articles. It would not only serve the left but would help to unite the reformist and sectarian groups in practical work without asking them to give up their opposition to one another.

  Check out "www.pix.org" to see some of my ideas.

  By placing electronic articles (and summaries/reviews of other material) in a common public-domain (ie: no copyright) database, accessible to all and with a common format, it would become much easier for activists and progressive people to see what is going on.

  The development of something like this is, in my view, inevitable. In fact while the left may be coming "late" to the communications revolution--it is my view that it will eventually achieve hegemony in many of the key areas because it alone will be able to build a common news service based on volunteer labor--and by so doing--will be able to tap into vast reserves of human labor power.

  Ola, I have to date received 27 comments at my cyberLeninism site. You, more than anyone, seem to understand what I am trying to do.

  When you have some time, I would like to hear from you. Eventually, if I am going to accomplish something of real value, I will need guidance, assistance, criticism and interaction with other highly committed people.

  Sincerely,
  Ben ----//-//

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