So, since the "poststructuralist critique of reason" has deprived us of the ability to think, we can only comprehend ad hominem attacks and insults. I missed the rational argument that was under it, but that is no doubt because I once read DeLeuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus and it overwhelmed my Quine and Davidson completely. Doug, incapable of criticizing his paid subscribers? Hang around here and watch him do it serveral times daily. Or was the rational point that any poarticipation in electoral politics is a total sellout, unworthy of the left? I'm not otherwisea great fan of Lenin, but he took that line to task with great effect in "Left-Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder." You might try that for rational debate. --jks
>From: "jan carowan" <jancarowan at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Summary of Nader analysis
>Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:04:52 PST
>
>Mr Henwood,
>
>I am free to say rude things about this fine writer because she is not a
>paid subscriber of a publication with which I am associated. Behind my
>fighting words there was reasoning which you are free to engage. After
>listening to Ms Goodman's self proclaimed "critical" interview of Mr
>Clinton
>and now reading your "counter" to my criticism of Ms Ehrenreich, it seems
>clear to me that the poststructuralist critique of reason has led to
>leftists thinking that rational debate is a form of totalitarianism to be
>avoided at any cost.
>
>With the same warm greetings of Conan's insult dog, Jan
>
>>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>Subject: Re: Summary of Nader analysis
>>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:49:51 -0500
>>
>>jan carowan wrote:
>>
>>>She has done great harm, and should never again be allowed top
>>>billing in a leftist publication. Her leftism is truly infantile of
>>>the drama queen sort.
>>
>>Them's fightin' words, comrade. I'm a big fan of Barbara Ehrenreich.
>>I think *you're* being the drama queen here, by saying rude things
>>about a fine writer and by saying hyperbolic things about the damage
>>of a W presidency. Perhaps you should take a stress pill and relax....
>>
>>Doug
>
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