>On this list, though, or in any other forum which pretends to be a
>leftist forum, I think discussion should focus first on truth, and only
>secondarily, in terms of shared agreement on that, should tactics or
>style be discussed. Some on the list seem deliberately to speak only of
>style while pretending to be speaking of substance.
But we trust you to be our ideological auditor, making sure that style never gets in the way of substance (though didn't Adorno have something critical to say about the idea that some essential meaning exists apart from its formal embodiment?).
Doug