Henry C.K. Liu
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Kelly wrote:
>
> >the relentless critique crowd
> >never seems to have anything else to offer, accept some vague claim that
> >it'll be all better once we get rid of capitalism.
>
> You're the one blaming "capitalism" for our political torpor, not me. You
> could easily criticize me for being timid, bourgeois even, for paying so
> much attention to legal structures.
>
> Margaret wrote:
>
> >Perfection-or-nothing positions may warm the cockles
> >(and mussels) of our self-satisfaction, but they do
> >little good in the real world. And if we're not
> >trying to do good in the real world, what the hell kind
> >of socialists are we, anyway?
>
> Would you please tell me how a critique of the U.S. Constitution and the
> machinery it has spawned is a "perfection-or-nothing" position, a departure
> from the "real world," a term that's not very clear in this context, but
> has some suggestion of the status quo? If you're trying to figure out why
> the U.S. has the most depoliticized political discourse in the known world,
> isn't the institutional struture of the place worth examining? Isn't it
> worth pointing out that the damn near impregnable rule of money was
> actually a design feature?
>
> Doug