[lbo-talk] Re: poor, white and pissed

[Turbulo at aol.com]

I am afraid that "radical" or "revolutionary" are too often code words for
hooliganism.  With that in mind, the distinction should be between those
committed to institutional changes and those interested mainly in creating
ruckus and ass kicking.  The former has greater appeal to people identifying
themselves as liberals, the latter - to the folk described by Joe Bageant,
especially frustrated males.  

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Code words in whose lexicon? Have you ever heard of Marx or Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci or Lukacs? These people were revolutionaries, part of a long and intellectually formidable tradition. Anyone who would equate revolutionaries or radicals with hooligans and "ass-kickers" simply inhabits a different mental universe from mine. I know this isn't the 60s or 70s, but, Christ almighty, is the political/intellectual discontinuity that profound?!!!