[lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou

[Doug Henwood]

Ravi, you start with a bogus opposition between purists and netroots,  
the former largely adherents of the Church of Marx. Max would not  
score high on any tests of Marxist purity; he's always struck me as a  
serious yet pragmatic guy who works in DC, fer Chrissake. And  
netroots - what are they (and you name Kos and MyDD, both of which  
prominently feature love letters to Nancy Pelosi) but a new  
constituency for fairly conventional Dem politics, with little in the  
way of politics or analysis (unless you consider this from MyDD an  
analysis: "I find the horserace among Clinton, Edwards and Obama so  
scrambled right now that I couldn't possibly rank their relative  
chances to win the nomination with any comfort at all")? I can  
already hear the vacuum cleaners revving up.

Doug

On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:19 PM, ravi wrote:


>
> My own polemic on the Max v NetRoots can be read at:
>
> http://platosbeard.org/archives/262
>
> Nothing particularly intelligent. Instead the following under the
> heading "Will the Real Internet Left please stand up?":
>
> * Incremental steps are preferable to revolutions that return us to
>   where we were (in the words of G.K.Chesterton)
>
> * That these steps are not progress remains to be shown
>
> * To not understand the limits of such steps is wilful blindness
>
> * The real Internet Left is, to repeat, Richard Stallman
>
> 	--ravi
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