[lbo-talk] Stan Goff, Windbag

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Feb 7 10:51:10 PST 2007


I disagree sharply with Stan on some issues, but he's not off his rocker, his ideas, right or wrong, still deserve serious consideration by anyone who wants to claim to be a leftist -- and I detect a bit of jealousy in this thread. He's a windbag only for those under the delusion that u.s. crimes are mere aberrations or because the wrong man is in the White House. Those crimes express the inner reality of the nation as a nation (though I hope not of most of its people). There is no greater need in the world today than an international united front against the u.s. Stan's tactical suggestions are of course debatable, as are anyone's, but they point in the right strategic direction.

In the future the world (if there still is one) will debate the "Good Americans" of this period as back in the '40s we debated the question of the "Good Germans."

Carrol



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