Ethical foundations of the left

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Fri Jul 27 10:56:46 PDT 2001


no. my answer indicates that i'm sick of the salivating and the rubbing of hands whenever ken joins the list and writes about habermas and lacan. your post was bait, a troll, etc.

perhaps defensive of someone who i love and care about, but it is not unfounded. i've seen the three of you, and others, attack ken unmercifully for years now and i'm tired of and i surely am NOT going to rise to your flamebait.

kelley


>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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