[lbo-talk] the problem with Webb

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 20:28:58 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Expressing sympathy for the Confederacy and gushing over
> violence seem just a little problematic for me.

What do either of those have to do with Just's flippant dismissal of "resentment," arguably the basis of all class mobilization?


> But I'm a pointy-
> headed wuss, I know.

You take these online debates personally, don't you?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> By the way, Michael Lind is brutal about the Scots-Irish in his book
> on Texas. He thinks they're a bunch of land-stealing con men.

He thinks we are, eh? Well, I'll try not to take his opinion personally.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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