Brad, Oskar, Noam

[Carl Remick]

> It is bad politics, it is immoral politics, to say that our 
> task is only to
> make sure that the right shadows are cast on the walls of the 
> cave so that
> those in darkness will react appropriately. Instead, we 
> should be aiming to
> raise the level of the debate: to help people walk outside 
> into the light.
>  
> Second, I don't think that it raises the level of the debate for Noam
> Chomsky or Seth Akerman to claim that Bob Rubin is part of a 
> "monolithic
> opposition" to Oskar Lafontaine. "Monolithic" =
> single-block-of-stone-without-cracks-fissures-or-joints, after all.

I don't know whether you're trying to be Plato or Henry Clay in this
wildly discursive post, Brad, but I think trying to blur the differences
between Bob Rubin and Oskar Lafontaine is, well, "bad politics, immoral
politics."

Carl Remick