[lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?

[Charles Turner]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:49:58 -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
> Maybe Yoshie's whole mission on this list can 
> be summed up as: "Bollinger vs Ahmadinejad -- take 
> your pick. No, don't evade. You have to choose. 
> This is actually existing reality, with a genuine 
> social basis, not some contrivance of legislation 
> or institutional bylaws. You really have to take 
> your pick."

Dabashi may indeed be engaging in some liberal conceit, but I don't 
understand why the situation has to be reduced to the binary of a 
Prisoner's Dilemma?

Best, C