[lbo-talk] Quick Note

[Joseph Catron]

I'm sure there's more substance to your thinking than this, but at my most
cynical, I could assume you're using "barbarism" as a euphemism for "things
I don't like," as others have done with "fascism" or "liberalism." There's
certainly no clear indication to the contrary here.

If you're instead tying it to precarity, or repression, or some combination
of those and other things, I see no reason to not just say them instead.
When I hear talk of "barbarism" today, I instinctively assume it's coming
from some racist crackpot. Maybe 5% of the time, I'm wrong and it's a
Marxist. Why carry all that baggage voluntarily, especially for a term with
no clear meaning? Maybe I'm wrong, and there's something in it worth
redeeming, but I don't see what it is ...

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
> wrote:

Here's an article dealing with an example of contemporary barbarism:
>
> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/clim-m07.shtml
>
> But really, examples abound.  Pick up any newspaper.

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