[lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?

[c b]

But what is Parenti trying to do? His book will not change the mind of
any fundamentalists, nor do I think it will help any leftist t o reain
a leftists. All I can see it doing is providing entetainment for
atheists on the left. The world is not changed by its presence, nor
does it flow as far as I can see from this thread from the activity of
changing the world.

So I guess that Parenti, as exhbited in a selection of remarks from
this thread, is in fact an aggressive idealist, proceding on the
assumption that ideas have a history of their own independent of
social actuality.

My eyes are getting really bad, and I have not attempted to read the
thread completely or read more than scattered pieces carefully.

Carrol

^^^^^^^^
CB: In my contact with Parenti over the years, he's been as connected
to struggles to change the world and social actuality as people here
and most college profs,  including Carrol.   As book writers go, I'd
say he's more involved in practical critical activity than most.