> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Rob Schaap
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:58 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: Survivor!
>
>
> On this I absolutely agree with you, Christopher. The hostility
> with which
> your attempts at discussion were met has been a source of depression for
> me, too. Most here profess a political theory based on solidarity, the
> theory/practice dialectic, and the conviction it has something to say from
> which others might benefit - and yet so many can't control, don't even
> think it is important to try to control, their propensity to smug
> ostracisation. I reckon a lot of people think the things you think, and I
> reckon you're importantly wrong. If I help to drive you off, I am
> effectively saying I'm not interested in all those other folks either.
> Which would mean I don't mean my politics or I don't understand it. It
> would also mean I'm a gratuitously rude bastard.
Thank you for succinctly describing what I was thinking.