[lbo-talk] exploitation of pro-athletes was Re: Hamid Dabashi onIran

[Michael McIntyre]

JP minus the overt commitment and the actual activism?  That would mean . .
. some full-blooded version of panchayati raj and village collective
enterprises (not the watery versions currently on offer) plus . . . ?  I
always admired JP as a political figure, and once had more sympathy with his
more speculative programmatic side than I do today.  Where do you go with
this?

MM

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:


> On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:48 PM, SA wrote:
>
>> Carrol Cox wrote:
>>
>>  ravi's objection to "dryness" is precisely the longing of the isolated
>>> bourgeois individual for warmth and human company.
>>>
>>
>> If only those bourgeois individuals could experience the warmth and human
>> company of Carrol Cox. They'd turn Marxist in a heartbeat.
>>
>>
>
> I am not sure I would ever turn Marxist (I think my trajectory is quite
> similar to JP Narayan minus the overt commitment -- and the actual
> activism!), but I do think, despite his recent nonsense about Gandhi/India,
> Carrol would be a pretty sweet chap ... in person. ;-)
>
> Dennis, yes, I got that sentence wrong, didn't I? But Carrol's post offered
> other examples. Let me know if you want me to look it up and repost.
>
>        --ravi
>
>
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