CNN found using fake footage

[Lawrence]

But are you saying that you want people to think of your opinion as marxist,
rather than smart? Which is the greater compliment in your mind? Someone who
says "What you just said was brilliant" or "What you just said was marxist"?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: CNN found using fake footage


>
>
> kelley wrote:
> >
> > At 12:41 AM 9/16/01 -0700, Lawrence wrote:
> > > >>>
> > >MBS:
> > >Now is the time, I would say, to address chauvinism
> > >and indiscriminate military actions, not for christ's
> > >sakes to advance a 'left' agenda.
> > ><<<
> > >
> > >For my part, I will never understand why anyone would ever want to be
seen
> > >as advancing a "left" or "right" agenda. Why not be seen as advancing
an
> > >"intelligent" agenda? Why not be seen as advancing the "best" agenda?
Or the
> > >wisest? Or the most informed? Why "left" or "right"? It amazes me that
some
> > >people identify with these labels, so much that they want to compete
for it.
> > >As a purely practical matter, I think most of the public wants to hear
the
> > >"best" agenda, not a "left" or "right" one. But even if pragmatism is
not a
> > >concern, I still have never understood why someone would prefer
labeling
> > >their opinion as "left" rather than "intelligent."
> >
> > because 'left' in this space--LBO--doesn't mean left as it is meant in
> > common parlance. left means utilizing a materialist analysis, at it's
most
> > basic level.
> >
>
> Someone recently quoted Che: "It's not my fault," he said, "that reality
> is marxist."
>
> Carrol