>>> Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> 05/29/99 04:09PM >>>At bottom, Louis has always been irked by Henwood's respect for facts and
rationality, since for Lou the revolutionary vision is what determines what
is true and what not, who is good and who is evil. Their common, highly
unstable ground (hence the on-again, off-again soap opera) is an
unrealistic, improbable, and unspecified politics. I can't imagine either
of these characters existing in a disciplined, hard-line communist cadre
organization; Louis is too ornery and Doug is too principled. And those are
good things.
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CB: These are false innuendos about the relationship between facts and revolution. Reality and the facts are radical. The status quo is preserved by falsehoods, non-facts.
Nor do individual thinkers have some general advantage over collectives ,such as hard-line communist cadre , in stubborness, principledness or stubborn adherence to principle. Max offers no facts to support his assertion of a self-congratulatory , academic stereotype.
Charles Brown