[lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Fri Apr 18 13:25:10 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Curtiss Leung" <hncl at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy


> Far as I can tell, the real horror of Strauss and his progeny is that
> it won't even be a secret society, because of the perverted esoteric
> readings: on their account, every thinker was an atheist and nihilst
> who tried to cover it up. Barf.
>
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Hence Strauss' use of the term 'noble nihilism.' Nihilism cannot be democratized. But if they're consistent in their nihilism, why not?

Ian



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