[lbo-talk] Publishing on the Left (MarketingDork &UnemployedPride)

[Michael Dawson]

Yes, Jon, would you please stop trying to explain things?!?!?  Having a
theory of social change that clashes with "Chairman Cox's 100% Magical
Elixir of Non-Explanation, Megalomania, and 17th-Century Literary Reference"
is, ipso facto, a tautology.  So, cut it out and get back in line for your
next spoonful of Wisdom!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:49 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Publishing on the Left (MarketingDork
> &UnemployedPride)
> 
> 
> 
> Jon Johanning wrote:
> >
> > One big problem with socialism in this country, I
> > think, is that most Americans just don't think of themselves as
> > "revolutionaries." The whole romance of mounting the barricades,
> > storming the Winter Palace, etc.,
> 
> Gee, who wudda guessed it. As of January 1917 no one in Russia thought
> of themselvesd as mounting the barricades. As of December 1967 no one in
> France dreamt of mounting the barricades.
> 
> Another secret equivalent to this one. All black cats are cats.
> 
> I tried for 41 years to persuade undergrads that they should try to
> avoid tautologies, which always sound terribly profound (or as Pope put
> it, profund) until reduced to the statement that a is a.
> 
> There are no revolutionaries in the u.s because -- surprise, surprise -
> there are no revolutionaries in the u.s.
> 
> Carrol
> 
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