On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:16 AM, John Gulick wrote:
> More than anything else, though, I don't like the concept anymore
> because
> it symbolizes intellectual laziness on the left (and I won't exempt
> myself from
> that charge). For example, I tremendously admire Tariq Ali, and
> relish his
> written commentary and public speaking, eating it up wherever I can
> find it...
> but unfailingly, when contrasting Venezuela-Bolivia-Ecuador to
> what's going
> on elsewhere, that elsewhere is always the same old recipe of
> privatization,
> deregulation, IMF-World Bank structural adjustment, blah blah blah.
> It is the
> kind of simplistic tripe that I trot out in front of my students
> whenever I'm
> too unmotivated to update lectures from 1996.
Hmm, well, how would you update that lecture? What's missing? What would a lifting of laziness uncover?
Doug