I don't thing either Rorty or West can be considered radicals. Rorty made a pathetic apology for the Vietnam war at the Columbia labor teach-in (I am surely not ashmaed to have parted company with many a labor unionist, including my father, on this issue) and West seems now to be a "family values" man. I recall a sad letter to Clinton penned by former radical economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis when Clinton was first elected. Bullshit about how Clinton had a chance to do good deeds, etc. These things say a lot more about the "progressives" who try to cozy up to the democrat politicians than it says about the politicians. Can Rorty and West believe that Bradley is some kind of intellectual with potentially radical ideas? Just another Rhodes scholar( i mean, who would take a scholarship named after Rhodes or at least dissociate himself from it after he knew better?) trying to cash in on the main chance who does not have anything to say and who will do nothing to help to liberate humanity.
michael yates
michael yates
p.s. I used to be a Knicks fan and I did like the way Bradley played basketball. I don't think he was going after the groupies either. Unlike the morally bankrupt Clinton.
Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Word is that Bill Bradley is having monthly meetings with Richard Rorty and
> Cornel West to brainstorm.
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> Doug