[lbo-talk] Re: Anti-intellectualism [Was Thunderbird}

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
Thu Dec 9 08:32:53 PST 2004


What's wrong with populism? The way I understand it, democracy is one variety of populism, and socialism is the best form of democracy. What am I missing?


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> Yes yes yes, its called spray and pray. But there is an anti intellectual
> left populism that lurks here as elsewhere. And I am sure there is good
> cause for some of it. That said North America reeks of populism.
>
> Travis
>
> > Not quite, Travis: Totally incoherent, and captures nothing but an
> > obviously untreated case of mental illness. Whoever wrote this
> > diarrhea-blast makes Carrol Cox look like a model of explanatory power -
> -
> > and that's saying something!
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