Milton Friedman is a genocidal murderer?
Please, that's silly.
Friedman was wrong about a lot of things, right about a lot of things and certainly added positively to the debate about economics. I didn't care for his views as a political figure, but so what?
On 11/16/06, Jesse Lemisch <utopia1 at attglobal.net> wrote:
> Friedman's doctrines killed hundreds of thousands (millions?). It's absurd
> to compare him with Ellen Willis. The willingness to criticize him
> immediately after death would in no way justify such treatment of Willis.
>
> Jesse Lemisch
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael J. Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net>
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead
>
>
> > On Thursday 16 November 2006 12:59, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > > [At the risk of inflaming Jesse again, bye Miltie. None too soon.]
> >
> > As a former inmate of the University of Chicago, I would
> > like to add my voice to Friedman's well-deserved cacologies.
> > A bad, bad, man, and the Grand Goblin of a very nasty, smug,
> > thuggish intellectual milieu around the B-school and the
> > economics department.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Michael J. Smith
> > mjs at smithbowen.net
> >
> > http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
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