On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:04 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Wed, October 1, 2008 11:36 am, Shane Mage wrote:
>
>> Nader didn't use the
>> word *socialist* negatively.
>
> Sure he did. I have great respect for Nader's lifetime of activism,
> which
> has saved millions of lives (think seatbelts). But he has his
> limitations,
> and one of them is an inability to think beyond the categories of the
> Empire's Cold War discourse. We desperately need a new politics in
> the US,
> one capable of talking openly about class, empire and capitalism,
> not as
> dogmatic bullet-points but as lived social realities.
Not just hysterical deafness but hysterical blindness as well. What I wrote was: "Nader didn't use the word *socialist* negatively. He used the word *"socialist"*. The scare quote-marks make all the difference and it is a sign of hysterical deafness not to have heard them." But I guess the now-cliché "socialism for the rich" is yet to be heard in the video-game universe.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos