[lbo-talk] Liberalism and socialism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jan 24 10:17:07 PST 2006


Charles Brown wrote:
>
> andie nachgeborenen
> TYhis is, as you would put it, a slander. In your case
> it's a lie. You know better. We've known each other
> for over 25 years, scary thought.
>
> ^^^^^
> CB; It's a lie you tell on yourself, then. I'm just going by what you say on
> this list. Have you forgotten all the times you declared yourself a liberal
> here ?
>

Charles, you and Justin are using the _word_ "liberal" in different senses. If you want to argue against his liberalism, you have to accept his definition of it.

I myself have some disagreements with Justin's actual positions (independently of whatever word is used to label them), but your attacks are irrelevant because they are on positions named by _your_ sense of the word liberal rather than on Justin's own actual positions.

(Personally, I think Justin is fighting against the English language as it now exists in his use of the word, but if you want to attack his politics you have to attack his politics, not his misuse of a word, and you aren't responding at all to his actual politics.)

Carrol



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