[lbo-talk] problems with the argument

[philion at stolaf.edu]

"I disagree. Were the guards as Auschwitz less culpable than Eichmann
himself? How about the clerks? The people who ran the showers? The
kitchen workers? No, if the bond traders were little Eichmanns, then by
Churchill's argument, the clerks were little Nazis, too."

Well, that's exactly why I don't care for the argument. I don't care for
it as it applies to Germany or to 911...Now you get it.  As a matter of
fact, I leave it to Marc Cooper to explain why it has such appeal, to me
it's a lousy way to do class analysis.  steve