----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 3:20 PM Subject: Re: Walzer on the Left
> OK, there's no hope, people hate all that is good. Man is evil. We would
be
> good, would itw ere so, but the circumstances just aren't so (Peachum's
song
> in tyhe 3Penny).
You do love your Brecht.
> Sure people are not presented with policies taht express
> their progressive inclinations. Who presents themwith such policies?
If the vast majority of citizens possess progressive inclinations, you'd expect them to overwhelmingly support past and present progressive policy. As I've attempted to demonstrate with the example of AFDC, this isn't always the case.
> That is in fact demonstrably wrong. You can tweak the resulyts by how you
> frame the question.
True. My bad for being ambiguous about what I disagreed with in your prior statement. However...
> Keep race out, whitew orkers give liberal answers. Put
> it in . . .
...when it comes to some programs, white workers will inject race in themselves.
> I don't know what the first means--parlaimentary vs the American system?
The
> fact taht they have ideological aprties in Europe but not here?--
The latter seems to be a result of the former.
> but I
> think you are not wrong about the second. However I think individualism is
a
> dependent variable.
Surely. But why do you see fit to mention its dependence?
-- Luke
> jks
>
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