----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:43 AM Subject: Re: Walzer on the Left
> It's another typical Walzer/Dissent swipe at anyone who is actually doing
> anything,
What, exactly, are the likes of Chomsky, Cockburn, and Said et al "doing"? I seem to remember Chomsky crying wolf about the humanitarian disaster that the US was attempting to quietly inflict on Afghanistan... and ignoring the fact that US intervention likely helped alleviate the famine alluded to, I can't recall Walzer saying anything half as stupid.
> he's been talking like this for thirty five years. just ignore it.
Better yet, engage it.
> Oddly enough, Walzer is excellent when it comes to giving rather abstract
> pol;itical theory type arguments for democratic socialism. I commend
Sphere
> of Justice to all; one needn't agree with his communitarian perspective to
> get a lot of good stuff from the book. But I can't recalla nything
> approaching a practical interventionw hwere he didn't end up fatuously on
> the wrong side.
Well, in an essay on the cold war in Howe's Radical Papers he unequivocally came down as an anti-interventionist... whether that put him fatuously on the wrong side I don't know.
-- Luke
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