twisted underoos Re: [lbo-talk] Ever more opportunities

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jul 3 09:23:16 PDT 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Look. With all the things in the world to talk about, LBO posters who
>choose to put on exhibit their moral or intellectual superiority to this
>woman, are also lbo posters who can't have much to say that's worth
>reading. Moralistic Horseshit. Gladstonian smugness. Perhaps they're
>Channeling Addison, Warburton, or Macaulay. Why bother to analyze or
>reply to it? You are probably right that it wouldn't even have made the
>news were it a man, but what the hell. It's like mounting heavy
>rhetorical artillery against the likes of Cal Thomas.

So it's not worth arguing with people who have millions of listeners/readers? Did you ever read Theories of Surplus Value? Was Marx wasting his time arguing with the hacks of his day?

Doug



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