[lbo-talk] choices [was: trash talking the lumpenproletariat]

Hank henry at inkworkswell.com
Mon Nov 13 14:02:11 PST 2006


At 01:28 PM 11/13/2006, Carrol Cox wrote:


>Indeed. Actually, all Wojtek is doing is echoing Milton but without
>Milton's fine qualification (paraphrased from memory): "Tyranny must be,
>but to the tyrant no excuse." The strong need to hold almost everyone in
>contempt can generate weird intellectual gymnastics. Milton had a good
>excuse: the English people had stood by while the Restoration tortured
>his friends to death. That would generate a certain understandable bite.

There was something about a dog recently.

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