>The beauty of statements such as "Many X's believe P" is that it can't
>possibly be false, so it can't be worth a damn as well.
As far as I can tell, the tenets of Cox Thought are:
1) The world is just a series of endless particularities; generalizations are impossible. That makes theory impossible, too.
2) History just happens; we can't predict events or explain them after they occur.
3) Revolutions and other political earthquakes just happen, too; there's no way to persuade the unpersuaded. Therefore politics consists mainly of talking among ourselves, and holding small demonstrations whose principal point is doing a census of our tiny numbers.
Of course, I've just violated proposition 1). Sorry.
Doug