[lbo-talk] conversation overheard

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 14:06:02 PDT 2011


Uh, Charles, "Joe" was me (on Facebook), reacting to your preposterous reading of Michael Lind's suggestion that Obama run as a Republican.

^^^^^ CB: Thanks , Doug. I wasn't sure whether to bust u by name. Uh Doug, my response was not at all preposterous, but right on. Well, Michael Lind's suggestion is a bit preposterous. You present it as serious , when it should be ridiculed. So my response was , half-tongue in cheek , but used his preposterous context to make some good points. Then ur typical redbaiting response actually , dialectically, allowed me to come up with a good response to such redbaiting which I'll use in the future. Thanks.

On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:12 PM, c b wrote:


> Joe: Democratic party apologetics meets Stalin-style elections?
>
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> Jack : That sounds like a Keynes-Trotsky type comment - Wall Street
> rentier poses as petit bourgeois revolutionist.

Full context:


> Charles Brown That would be too good to be true. But who thought white supremacist America would elect a Black person in 2008, so maybe it could happen. Republican Party returns to its roots in the Liincolnites.
>
> Doug Henwood Charles, I'm hoping you purposely missed the point.
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> Charles Brown Wishful thinking on your part , comrade. I get ur point and am contradicting it. Support Obama. I mean he would be nominated by both parties.
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> Doug Henwood Charles, Democratic party apologetics meets Stalin-style elections?

Lind's piece:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/21/lind_obama_republican



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