The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology....

[Joanna Sheldon]

At 02:28 25-05-01, Carrol wrote:
>Everyone must know _many_ who were (and are) admirable human beings. As
>I have indicated in other threads, I am not very interested in judgments
>of individuals, though no one living under capitalism can avoid
>constantly falling into such judgments. When that happens, they should
>be treated like a symptom of the common cold: ameliorated as much as
>possible. (The current threads on SUVs and "brats" illustrate how
>anti-political a focus on desirable and undesirable personal habits can
>be. The attack on SUVs and their owners is utterly without political
>merit.)

But maybe the expression of anti-SUV sentiment is really an attack on a 
symptom of the distortion of values under capitalism.

cheers,
Joanna S.

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