[lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum

Janice Cox jkcox30 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 23 16:22:47 PDT 2011


I've been more than a bit puzzled and quite a bit appalled by this whole thread.

I was there and the speech was better in the real than on YouTube and seemed totally appropriate in addressing the lessons and disappointments of the past and the hope embodied in present struggles around the globe and here in insurgent fightback efforts in our own country.

I gleaned something new to think about in terms of solidarity -- who we stand with and why and how to evaluate differences among us, but still stand together.

But, why on earth, did a discussion thread on a political discussion list degenerate into a discussion of his hair, beard, style, and career? That seemed totally irrelevant and disrespectful.

Jan

________________________________ From: "123hop at comcast.net" <123hop at comcast.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 10:58:43 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>

But a politics without representation, exclusion, dogmatism, and utopianism is no politics at all (which is why Schmitt quite rightly sees liberalism as lacking a politics). It is instead an ethics. Is it any surprise, then, that under neoliberalism ostensible leftists spend countless hours and pages and keystrokes elaborating ethics? the ethics of this or the ethics of that, fundamentally personal and individual approaches that obscure and deny the systems and structures in which they are embedded? ___________________________________

I think "ethics" is too kind a word; I'd say "posture."

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