[lbo-talk] Bush as Diversion

[Culture Lab]

I think the difference is that some leftists make these claims in order to 
suggest something about the left in general. yoshie's just being polite and 
not naming you directly. it doesn't read as if she's trying to divide 
lefties into camps, or trying to say that, because some leftists are like 
this, you can draw some conclusion about the rest of the left. though you 
could read it that way.

As Manwich, the Squeezed-in-too-tight-SpaceMan, demonstrated the other 
night, cowardly pathetic little attacks use generalizing language, 
presumably because they were taught to be polite. Yet, they work to confuse 
the audience, making it appear that he never engaged in a personal attack 
at all. Such a master of propaganda, he.

Sacred cows make the juiciest hamburgers.

At 04:01 AM 10/23/2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
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>>
>>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>>
>>>  Carrol Cox wrote:
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>>>  >But capital, not a particular administration, is our enemy.
>>>
>>>  What's capital? How do we find it/them?
>>
>>Ever hear of Metonymy?
>>
>>Yoshie put it nicely: "Some leftists are oddly literal-minded."
>
>If some people had used "capital" that way, I'd have read it as metonymy. 
>I use it myself rather frequently. But you're constantly so vague on 
>actual persons, institutions, and mechanisms of engagement that I took it 
>as an grand abstraction, with no personification in the earthly realm. So 
>I was wondering if you could put some flesh on this formulation.
>
>"Some leftists..."? I thought you hated that sort of generalization.
>
>Doug
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