[lbo-talk] "Nuttiness

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Apr 21 10:24:33 PDT 2009


I don't think "nutty" is a very useful bit of political jargon, & I hope I remember not to use it again after this and the preceding post -- where I use it because another poster had initiated its use.

As an ad hoc piece of jargon, I would define it as politics grounded in (a) mere inheritance and (b0 wishful thinking. Both evolutionary and M-L revolutionary roads to socialism fit this definition like a glove, hence my reference to them as two sides of the same coin. The coin, incidentally, is a mechanical or vulgar conception of the difference between capitalism and socialism.

Carrol



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