Thank you Demo!
Her 9,000 word piece is really just one extended personal attack. I will leave it to anyone who is interested (i don't see why anyone should be) to decide if this person has gone way off the deep end. If Rosa thought that any of my inferences about her views, or any of my attempts to try to characterize what she were saying, were wrong, really the easiest way to deal with this (and what I always do when people misinterpret what i say) is to simply and patiently clarify what her view is. I don't think that would have been very difficult. A lot easier, one would think, than writing an obsessive 9,000 word ad hominem. if she's not an empiricist, if she defends the method of hypothesis and test, or whatever, all she had to do was to make this clear. that should be no big deal, one would think.
she makes a big deal of the fact that i started posting on revleft.com at the time she posted here. actually i had tried to register on revleft.com some time in the past, when i found out that an old comrade and friend I'd known since the '70s was posting there under the moniker redstar2000, but it was down. from her references to it here, I merely inferred it was back up again, which I was unaware of. her presence on it was of little concern to me.
That's because she's a sad sad insane pharisee Demog, quite insane. I'm just seeing her deliberately misrepresent Marx, while claiming to represent him. And then to personally attack someone like that? Wow. She really doesn't belong in the worker's movement. I was wondering why she called herself a Leninist, and not a Marxist, or even a Marxist Leninist. Now I understand. She's an authoritarian with a chip on her shoulder. She's removed whatever shred of sense can be found in Lenin and advances such garbage. Blech. SIMCP has the right idea as far as her insane self is concerned, let her ramble.