[lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many"

[Doug Henwood]

Hmm. Google the phrase in quotes, follow some links, and the 
following turn up (I think I know where JL and BdL got it from):

<http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/001710.html>

"Indeed, war with Austria-Hungary made no sense for the Czar and his 
dynasty (which lost its throne and their lives) or for Russia's 
ruling class (which was, after the war, one of the groups about which 
the new government thought that the four walls of a prison were three 
walls too many)."

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Elliott Abrams will now be deputy national security advisor, and the 
Washington Post headline says without apparent irony that he will be 
heading "democracy efforts." I would like to say that Abrams more 
properly belongs in prison, but the sad fact is that there are some 
people for whom four walls are three too many.

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07-28-2005, 08:34 PM

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Four walls are three too many.

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Curtiss Leung Says:
July 28th, 2003 at 8:43 pm
Zing! You've caught a potent irony in the historical triumphalism of 
some on the right.

I'd like to suggest a moniker for these born-again historical 
determinists who persist in calling themselves conservatives: 
Right-wing vulgar Marxists. On the other hand, such a label might 
encourage people like the "liberatarian" blogger who thought anti-war 
protesters should be beaten with 2?4s to adapt other attitudes of 
repressive communism. Could the time be far off when we see a one 
line post at the most linked-to weblogger of them all that reads, 
"Four walls are three too many for some people? Indeed," with a link 
on "Indeed" to a scene of protest.

I need some sleep.

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what balls (none / 0) (#22)

by jsm on Fri Jul 20th, 2001 at 10:22:42 AM PST

On the other hand, the fallacy of "taking the views of fucking Nazis 
at face value and trying to argue with them seriously, as if they 
weren't Nazis" doesn't have a posh Latin name, but it's been a source 
of more error than "ad hominem" over the last fifty years. The 
following quote sums up how I feel about your pusillanimous 
insistence on regarding prissy "rules of debate" as more important 
than our duty to fight Fascism wherever we meet it.

"For some people, four walls are three too many" -- Josef 
Vissarionavich Dhugashvili ("Stalin")

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