how do you get people to commit Was: Americans' concerns

[Carl Remick]

> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> > joining. He fortunately had never read Adorno or been on a maillist
> > with nothing better to do than ask foolish questions.
> 
> Which explains exactly why the CP was smashed so easily in 
> the Fifties,
> and why Rightwingers to this day ceaselessly attack intellectuals and
> pointy-heads (and, of course, the Frankfurt School) any 
> chance they can,
> right?
> 
> -- Dennis

Yes, I think it's a mistake to romanticize this plucky guy hawking the
Daily Worker on a street corner no matter what the weather.  Maybe New
York City is just nastier than Minneapolis, but anyone who has been here
any length of time gets used to seeing an assortment of cranks at their
habitual postings around town flogging their idées fixes.  No one to my
knowledge has ever said, "Gee, look at those guys with nothing better to
do than annoy passersby  -- they must really have something to say!"

Carl Remick