----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> What "political adversaries" are you speaking of? Politics isn't a
> formal debate. Usually when one is making a political pitch it is in a
> one-to-one or one-to-few context in which, and the political adversary
> (the capitalist social order, its politicians and its pundits, etc.) is
> only present, indirectly, in the consciousness of those one is
> speaking/writing to. Hence formal pro/con debate is beside the point.
> And no one is ever going to debate _Empire_ in the letters column of a
> local newspaper. :-)
>
> Carrol
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What, you've never argued with a Republican? :-)
Ian