----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:51 PM Subject: Re: Hitchens No Orwell
> Some are, most aren't, just like anyone else. But curl up with, e.g.,
> Posner's Law and Literature, and tell me if you can (a) stop reading and (b)
> deny he's thoughtful. Or, I was looking at a recently recovered book, Scott
> Arnold's Philosophy and Economics of Market Socialism; Scott's a friend, a
> right winger, and one of the bnest critics, in the good sense, taht the left
> has, the kind of critic that keeps you honest, sensitive, sympathetic,
> reflective, honest, and careful. And smart. We should be so good on average.
> --jks
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It would seem we still need to figure out a non-academic discourse that does for the left what Friedman et al did for the right. Especially on the fundamentals of the politicaleconomy - property and contract - so that folks visceral experiences of exploitation etc. can find explanations and justifications for their rage as well as tools to do something about it. "Young people" are hungry for straightfoward unpretentious radicalism. Verso et al need to figure out the market for red-green ideas that bootstraps our hopes. Esoterica ain't the future.
Ian