[lbo-talk] Fear of nationalization sets in

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Feb 22 11:46:42 PST 2009


Eric Beck wrote:
>
> On 2/21/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> >> Because it will lead to atheism and nihilism after millions of hard
> >> working people have a collective nervous breakdown?
> >
> > When even leftists who should no better think nationalization =
> > socialism, who knows what strange thoughts must circulate in the minds
> > of capitalists! Next thing you know they will be nationalizing garage
> > sales.
>
> I took Eubulides to be ironic,

He was, and so was I -- though given the weight of the term "irony" on this list, perhaps "sardonic" would be a better description of tone. Don't make too much of parenthetical chatter.

Carrol



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