----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Dawson To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:01 AM Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] She seemed to me, at that moment,like a Roman spectator (was...Mr. Churchill)
> We can hope. We can work to avert this future. But my reading of
> Churchill is that we shouldn't be surprised if that's the world we find
> ourselves in.
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> .d.
Everybody defending or semi-defending Churchill does so on the basis of an extremely kind leftist reading of his call for more crime. But, crap, people, this wasn't a note from some political seminar amongst ourselves. It was an essay produced for the general public and designed, like all such writings, to teach its readers something. As leftists, our job is to teach people why they should join us. Hence, we have to find the most appealing ways to explain what we see to people who arrive without our leftist angle. We have to dress Republican and talk Socialist, in other words. It just isn't an legitimate intellectual maneuver to assess Churchill's essay and book on the basis of how we commies might see it most charitably. The question is how ordinary people will see it. From that perspective, it is an even bigger disaster than Hitchens, who at least admits he's a renegade from left principles. <...> ==========
Michael Dawson proposes that I buy a suit (for the first time in my life).
<...> "We have to dress Republican and talk Socialist, in other words. It just isn't an legitimate intellectual maneuver..." <...>
Two words: no...
oh, I'm sorrrrry, that's one word.
Chameleons aren't intellectuals tacticians, they are lizards!
Has the thread about reptilian aliens inhabiting the bodies of the Bush admin people been bandied about on lbo-talk recently? It may be appropriate.
L
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