Ethical foundations of the left

Kenneth MacKendrick kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Fri Jul 27 13:49:06 PDT 2001


Dear Carrol,

Please explain why critique, whatever critique you might be interested in, is not just a random assault on society.

Yours truly, ken

At 12:26 PM 7/27/01 -0500, you wrote:


>I keep arguing that the debate over what "the left" should say to people
>and how "the left" should say it is silly until we have a program of
>struggle going that alerts people that we have something to say. So far
>no one who thinks Habermas important has ever said anything that made me
>say, gee, I ought to read Habermas insttead of one of the couple hundred
>books that I know I should read in the next few days. I don't regard an
>intellectual or a leftist as really serious until they take with deadly
>seriousness the fact that for several hundred years it has become
>impossible for anyone to read all the books and articles and posts that
>he/she should read. This answer to my question shows that you aren't
>serious about Habermas.
>
>Carrol



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