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

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Wed Oct 17 11:03:32 PDT 2007


Maybe Yoshie will provide good answers to the two questions.

Doug wrote:


> Marvin, you're missing the point of Yoshie's performance - she has to
> show everyone she's smarter and tougher than us pussies and dolts.
> She's becoming a kind of Samantha Power of the sectarian left - she
> *cares* so much more than you do!


>> Yoshie writes:
>>
>>> On 10/16/07, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> Americans won't oppose a war as a result of greater public
>>>> understanding of the Islamic regime.
>>>
>>> It's not a major war against Iran that is on the US agenda today, for
>>> which the US power elite lack the means and the US public have little
>>> appetite. It is economic sanctions, covert actions, and "democracy
>>> assistance." Opposing mainly what's not on the agenda and doing
>>> nothing to oppose what's actually being done is a response that makes
>>> no political sense. Why do leftists insist on that?
>> ===================================
>> Who is "insisting" that sanctions, covert actions, and US-sponsored
>> subversion shouldn't be opposed? What measures are you taking to
>> end this
>> aggression?



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