peace,
Jim Davis Ozark Bioregion, USA
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=141735 http://www.amazon.com/Shia-Imami-Ismaili-Muslims-Introduction/dp/1430315628/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218913605&sr=8-2
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Leninoid gossip
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Cc: john_gulick at hotmail.com
> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:39 AM
> Chris Doss asks:
>
> >Did Stan Goff really convert to Christianity? Or is
> this old news?
>
>
>
>
> JG sez:
>
> It ain't exactly as complicated as the reading of
> entrails, but be your own judge.
> http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2008/09/14/open-letter-to-christian-us-troops-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/
>
> PS Please don't take this the wrong way -- Stan's
> path has its own understandable
> and defensible logic -- but the intensifying convergence of
> global economic collapse,
> carbon cycle disruption, recalcitrant US militarism, and
> bourgeois electoral follies
> in the ABSENCE OF A VIABLE LEFT seems to be spawning dozens
> upon dozens of
> strange individual trajectories. Maybe it's just the
> loosely interconnected circles I
> frequent (frequent is probably too strong a term) but I
> sense a lot of private despair
> and unannounced dropping-out going on (again, do not take
> this as a direct comment
> on Stan's case b/c he is far from quietly disengaging.)
>
> Ten years ago as a late twentysomething grad student I had
> a vague sense of belonging
> to a small but extant generation of independent
> radical/Marxoid activist-intellectuals and
> now that appears to have fractured entirely. My peers have
> become frightened Obamaites
> (comprehensible enough), conspiracy cranks, or jaded
> apocalypticists. There seems to be
> a strong correlation between those who "made it"
> in the world of academia/journalism/NGO's
> and the first camp and those who did not and the latter two
> camps.
>
> John Gulick
> Ansan, South Korea
>
>
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