[lbo-talk] Errata...

[ravi]

On 18 Oct, 2007, at 10:49 AM, I wrote quoting Dewey:
>
>     In spite of the existence of class conflicts, amounting at
>     times to veiled civil war, any one habituated to the use
>     of the method of science will view with considerable
>     suspicion the erection of actual human beings into fixed
>     entities called classes, having no overlapping interests
>     and so internally unified and externally separated that
>     they are made the protagonists of history -- itself
>     hypothetical. Such an idea of classes is a survival of
>     a rigid logic that once prevailed in the sciences of
>     nature, but that no longer has any place there. This
>     conversion of abstractions into entities [*] smells more
>     of a dialectic of concepts than of a realistic examination
>     of facts, even though it makes more of an emotional appeal
>     to many than do the results of the latter.

I never provided the footnote for that (*) -- what I intended to add  
was that in the foundations of logic there is considerable dispute on  
abstractions vs "real" entities, but I believe that those can be  
safely ignored in considering the above.

Another one:

On 13 Oct, 2007, at 0:13 AM, I wrote:
> My point is not to suggest a parallel between Iran and Venezuela  
> but to contrast their [somewhat] old-fashioned resistance against  
> the neo-lib approach of India. Yoshie (I think) used the word  
> "populism" (to describe the former) which perhaps is the right word  
> for it? As I have mentioned before, from my meagre understanding of  
> Iranian history, it is not as if they have not attempted other  
> models before and failed.

That last sentence should read: "it is not as if they have not  
attempted other models before and succeeded". I was referring to  
Mossadegh and our role in toppling that government.

	--ravi