[lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Apr 26 18:48:24 PDT 2009


James Heartfield wrote:
>
> OK, so now SA makes himself clear: he favours the free market and opposes
> socialism. He considers democratic planning an impossibility ("it probably
> could not have been so formulated even if that had been the intention") and
> SA thinks that the coercion of capital over labour through the market
> preferable to the self-determination of society. And because Trotsky favours
> socialism over capitalism, SA calls him a jerk!
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

All socialists are either jerks or dupes. That's dogma. You don't waste time arguing against it. You're a jerk. I'm a jerk. Those who read us with any approval are either jerks themselves or dupes. Amen.

Carrol



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