>>>> 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