[lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader

lweiger at umich.edu lweiger at umich.edu
Wed Jul 21 16:43:19 PDT 2004


Is it really true that their are a disproporionate number of politically and/or personally dreary folks on the left?

-- Luke

Quoting Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com>:


> >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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