[lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 13 18:29:43 PDT 2008


Joseph,

Even though you didn't answer my question whether folks involved in My Lai ought to "should receive the same [military] benefits as a five-star general at 30 years," I'll be charitable and extend a courtesy to you that you didn't to me, and answer your question.

Whether the Nuremberg Principles are bourgeois or not, they seem to make sense to me; like making it illegal to murder someone, something that also formally exists under "bourgeois ideology" and which also seems reasonable. So, to answer your question, no, I don't share every assumption of bourgeois ideology. I'm unapologetically selective about it.

If in your world the outlawing of sympathy strikes is "bourgeois ideology" -- then that is an aspect of "bourgeois ideology" I do not share. Sympathy strikes ought'nt be illegal. If murder's illegality, in Catron-Land, is also "bourgeois ideology," then that is a part of bourgeois ideology I support.

In other words, there are things I agree with in or current legal system, and things I don't. It's pretty simple. I'd be surprised if you felt differently.

The McCain part I explained as id-venting.

-B.

Joseph Catron wrote:

"Do you share every assumption of bourgeois 'criminal justice' ideology, or only those affecting military service? And if the latter, why?"



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