[lbo-talk] The Sixties and Platonic Farts

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Tue May 12 13:45:35 PDT 2009


Carrol Cox wrote:


> I'm not being facetious. That criticism is obviously correct -- and also
> obviusly, given the realities of mid-century U.S., utter nonsense.
>
> That is what I mean by a Platonic Fart. Criticism of Mao for creating an
> authoritarian state is just as accurate -- and just as nonsensical. It
> is a Platonic Fart.
>

That's true, Carrol. But by that logic, criticism of anything that ever happened would be a Platonic Fart.

Which would naturally exclude ruthless criticism of all that exists.

SA



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