[lbo-talk] Stan Goff: Falluja Lives!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 19 07:09:55 PDT 2004


Christian Gregory wrote:


> >The Bridge — A Rant
>>by Stan Goff
>>WARNING: This commentary may cause anxiety.
>
>Boredom and dyspepsia are more like it. Is there a point to
>this--other than to highlight Stan's narcissism?

Oh, but his fans - in the very metropolitan zones he's so scornful of - can feel so hard-bitten reading passages like this:


>That's why they don't listen to liberal platitudes about morality in
>the abstract. They know about the power from the barrel of the gun.
>It ends debates. It forces people to pay attention.

Without, of course, having to pick up arms themselves, much less figure out who should be in their sights.

Doug



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