> Yes, Henry, I do reject the Stalinist theory and practice of a united
> front.
Good luck to your Party of One.
> And you still didn't answer my questions--what are the universal human values after
> McIntyre's After Virtue (though it's been a decade since I read it) and what is our
> common cause? And what do you think of Hobsbawm's criticism of Korsch, the former last
> Marxist, in the former's Revolutionaries?
Your question about what are the "universal" human values cannot be answered by me alone. Note the word: universal. It can only be answered by a general consensus of all people. But if you don't believe in a united front, then for your the question is mute.
>
> I admit my post was not empirically based but it wasn't simply shrill
> either. I did raise some well known problems in the underclass discourse, along with
> the Murray theory of the social problem: AFDC=> unemployed single mother
> households=>several new pathological, criminal, and work averse children, including
> more single mothers=>more AFDC=>...
True, I did not criticize this part of your post. Murray needs to be exposed before his views become, as Doug said, conventional wisdom. I am not equipped to do it, because I only have opinions that Murray is wrong. Others may have facts and fact-based theories that will prove him wrong. I was merely urging those who can to do so, for which you started to imply I supported Murray's views. There are vast areas of human knowledge on which I am not expert enough to comment. On these areas, I tend to keep my opinion to myself. I apologize if this approach offends you.
Henry