[lbo-talk] prefiguring utopia

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>dave dorkin wrote:
>
>>Our experiences differ. The jibe about how boring this is doesnt 
>>have a place here; reply civilly or dont reply, please. One reason 
>>why it is always the same people who post here has a lot to do with 
>>this kind of attitude on display from you and a few others, even as 
>>you blithely post 10 or 15 messages a day.
>
>Aside from 8/13's 9 messages, Justin's been keeping within the 
>limits lately. But calling people "stupid" or their discourse 
>"boring" is pretty annoying - and god knows Justin isn't the only 
>one who does that (see also a certain retired English prof in 
>Illinois). It's not just bad manners and hostile to conversation - 
>it's really offensive politically too. We're supposed to be leftists 
>or socialists or whatever, and in favor of a less hostile, less 
>hierarchical, and less exploitative society. So why not try to enact 
>some of that in the present instead of waiting for that endlessly 
>deferred revolution?
>
>Doug

My wishful thinking is that "prefiguring utopia" at LBO-talk means 
that there will be no more long LBO-talk threads titled, for 
instance, "Dull, dull, dull" (Cf. 
<http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0308/index.html>).
-- 
Yoshie

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