[lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou

[Andy F]

On 1/24/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> For nearly two centuries a major path from radicalism to finking out has
> been engaging in coop ventures. There's an old Thurber cartoon showing a
> fencer who has just been neatly decapitated -- the caption "Touche." The
> already ex-radical doesn't know (s)he has 'sold out' and can for a few
> years at any rate continue to sneer at other former radicals who have
> settled down 'in the system' -- honestly and without trying to hide from
> themselves what they are doing. Marx on Proudhon easily translates into
> Marx on free software programmers who hallucinate that their work is
> anti-capitalist.

Say, didn't this thread start with the dismissal of Stallman as too purist?

-- 
Andy