[lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

I was mostly responding to a comment from James Heartfield speaks of
conservative "paranoid delusions" and adds: "Once you buy into the
exaggerated and absurd fears of the worldwide terrorist conspiracy it gets
very hard to abstract yourself from the outright assault on people's rights
that follows."

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Richard Seymour <
leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:


> On 09/04/2010 17:09, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> > You can acknowledge that petit bourgeois utopians
> > aren't the prime enemy of socialists without pretending that there aren't
> > international networks of terrorists regularly plotting to mass murder
> > civilians.
>
> Who, exactly, is engaging in such a pretence?
>