[lbo-talk] Ravitch v. Gates

[Carrol Cox]

The point is to defend the schools, not to score empty moral points against
Bill Gates. I forget Tamas's exact words, but one of his essential points is
that moral judgments are for losers. When Socil Democracy lost its hope, it
turned to Kant and Morality.

It is politically destructive to focus on Bill Gates as a person, his
motives, etc. That is the way losers cover up their hopelessness.

 Assume that Bill Gates means what he says -- and believes it. That is the
only premise that ever makes sense in building a resistance movement.

We do need to analyze, without caterwauling or moralism just why the
nation's leadership, including Bates and Obama, are heading this way.
Emotion doesn't help us do that.

Carrol