Any familiarity with the literature on the Vietnam War, in the dozen or so cites I cut and paste from the SFPL library catalog, in one of my bibliomaniac replies that get's ex-academic Joanna'a ire here, with Alfred McCoy who wrote the classic, "Politics of Heroin in S.E. Asia, " in the early 70's for Harper & Row, since re-issued by Lawrence Hill pubs. if memory serves, and Bernard Fall, one of the outstanding journalists who covered the war before being killed (see, "The Vietnam Reader, " edited by Marvin Gettleman around '66 issued in a mass market pb. or Wilftred Burchett, the great Australian Communist journalist who covered the war for The Guardian and had a stint for in These Times when Vietnam was invaded by the PRC in '79, are my way of conveying the background data, history and assumptions, I operate from to make my political judgements.
Did Joanna, curl her lips, while an academic while in a faculty meeting or a conference of the MLA or ASA or whatevah, if someone said, "As Marx wrote in the Grundrisse, " or, "As De Beauvoir wrote in, "the Second Sex..." Michael Pugliese
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:26:43 -0700, joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at sun.com> wrote:
> At 11:02 AM 04/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>> This is argumentation?:
>
> No it's not, but it's what Michael does best. I addition to doing this
> kind of thing, he is also forever arguing on behalf of democracy and free
> speech. It has always struck me that his ends and means are very much at
> odds with one another.
>
> I have gotten used to the fact that any time someone wants to engage him
> in a dialogue, Michael deluges said person with an interminable
> bibliography. "What's the subtext?" I sometimes wonder, are we supposed
> to go read all this stuff before we ever talk to Michael? But the main
> effect of his "replies" is that of being bludgeoned with
> words/references. It makes me less than friendly and less than
> sympathetic.
>
> Joanna
>
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-- Michael Pugliese
"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy