[lbo-talk] Nietzsche

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Mon Jul 2 10:30:07 PDT 2007


wrobert

While I generally have enjoyed this conversation with you Charles, I think that this accusation of redbaiting is bullshit. Folks have called you on being a bit dogmatic, but this does not constitute redbaiting. This tactic of claiming critics are engaged in redbaiting seems to be the last refuge of the Marxist-Leninist....

^^^^^ CB: Sorry robert, but , it is indeed pretty typical redbaiting. Liberals pull out this "dogmatic marxist bullshit" all the time. I am no more dogmatic than you , Doug, or andie. And I'm going to blast it everytime it comes up. It's ad hominem , and a diversion from the debate, disgusting liberal nonsense.

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CB: I thought about this some more. One way to see that claims such as "dogmatic" or "defunct Bolshie" are typically redbaiting is that nobody is likely to accuse robert of being a "dogmatic Nietzschean". Or Doug isn't likely to ask "do you think that Keynesians are just better than everyone else?". Well, I guess "defunct Bolshie" is obviously redbaiting. Yet, Keynes seems to somewhat "defunct" in economic circles nowadays, but few would as readily call Doug a "dogmatic Keynesian."



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