[lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 21 15:59:46 PDT 2004



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Hmm, I guess that boycott is one of those things that, as Chomsky notes,
>>"we take for granted now [that] didn't exist 40 years ago."
>>
>>Every day in every way we grow incomparably more civilized.
>
>What is it about the left that it draws so many people of gloomy
>temperament who only want to see the worst in the world? We used to be
>about possibility, transformation, finding the seeds of the new in the womb
>of the old. Now we're about why everything sucks and is getting worse.
>
>Doug

Yes, everything (a) sucks, (b) is getting worse, *but* (c) could well get better. C'mon, Doug, a little dialectics please! It's because I'm optimistic that I can be as gloomy as I am.

Carl

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