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> From: Louis Proyect[SMTP:lnp3 at panix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 10:30 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Greed is good
>
> >So please do not give me that 'risk' bullshit, it stinks so badly
> that I
> >have to open my window and risk catching a cold.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >WS
>
> Let's not be too rough on Jordan Hayes. He read "Atlas Shrugged" last
> year
> and it struck him as divinely inspired. Ayn Rand's prose has that
> effect on
> the young and the innocent.
>
> Furthermore, he has volunteered to put the LBO-talk archives on a
> computer
> in his possession. Such charity is highly laudable.
>
> Meanwhile, it is useful to have a bourgeois thinker on LBO-Talk, just
> to
> remind us of the sort of illusions that prevail in mass society. A
> couple
> of weeks ago young Jordan wrote me a letter telling me to take my
> Marxism
> somewhere else, because it didn't relate to the LBO-Talk agenda. I
> informed
> him that Doug Henwood was actually a Marxist and that LBO revealed
> this on
> an ongoing basis. "What's that...I can't believe it." was his
> response.
> Which is sort of a contradiction for Doug to resolve, but in any case
> let's
> not be too uncouth toward our house libertarian. Libertarians
> supposedly
> can have a certain insouciant charm, like P.J. O'Rourke or G. Gordon
> Liddy.
>
> Louis Proyect
>
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>