[lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Mon Mar 21 17:14:31 PDT 2011


On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:33:29 -0400 Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> writes:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:59:57 -0700 (PDT)
> Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > the U.S.
> > needs more left charlatans to provide an antidote to the plethora
> of
> > such creatures on the right.
>
> There's a pleasing symmetry to this, but one wonders whether a
> left charlatan really does cancel out a right charlatan. Is it
> not possible that the left charlatan tends to *reinforce* the
> right charlatan?

Back when West was at Harvard, I kind of think that Larry Summers may have had a valid point. A stopped clock is after all correct twice a day.

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