[lbo-talk] Vive Jacques, Le Moor ! Vive la differance !

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Eubulides" <paraconsistent at comcast.net>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
>>
>>I'm saying simply that the left would not be in its current moribund state
>>if more energy had been spent on politics since the Vietnam war era
>>instead of playing dweeby word games.
>>
>>Carl
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>"Language is politics."

It's more accurate to say that language is the *vehicle* of politics.  And 
you're not going to get anywhere politically if you spend your time 
tinkering around under the hood of that vehicle instead of taking it out on 
the road.


>From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Vive Jacques, Le Moor ! Vive la differance
>
>>Chalk it up as another one of those "friendly fire" incidents -- this
>>confusion seems to have taken a far more horrific toll of the left.
>>
>>Carl
>
>^^^
>Did it confuse people who were already left, or just  confuse some
>politically regular people , yet in that confusion also detaching them from
>the "canon", and  making them _potential_ , inchoate leftists ? Aren't some
>deconstructionists inchoate leftists or revolutionaries  ?

It's safer to say they're inchoate and let it go at that.

Carl