Motive Mongering Re: [lbo-talk] eminent domain

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 23 15:58:14 PST 2006


At 5:47 PM -0600 2/23/06, Carrol Cox wrote:


>the nonsense that
>almost always results when disputants take to describing motives

At 7:27 PM -0600 2/21/06, Carrol Cox wrote:


>It has been my experience, with few if any exceptions, going back to my
>first involvement in group politics in 1965, that when someone says "But
>this is how people perceive the world" what they really mean is "This is
>how I perceive the world but I don't want to admit it out loud."

Are "motives" different from unspoken meanings?

Doug



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