FW: An Ode To Douglass, Not Doug

[Seth Ackerman]

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> From: 	Brad De Long[SMTP:delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU]
> Reply To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: 	Sunday, November 05, 2000 4:41 PM
> To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: 	Re: An Ode To Douglass, Not Doug
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> It *does* depend on whether politics is supposed to be a place for 
> self-expression or an attempt to make the world a little bit better, 
> doesn't it?  Breaking Starbucks windows, not voting for the leftmost 
> of the candidates who might win, and making political alliances with 
> those who prefer Fidel Castro's brand of "democracy" to ours--these 
> are all ways to move the world a little bit further to the right.
> 
> But they may make the expressive actors feel better inside, and this 
> *is* the age of narcissism, after all...
> 
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The black-clad window-breakers have done more to derail the multilateral
trade agenda than Barney Frank ever has...

Seth