[lbo-talk] American Thought Police

[// ravi]

On Mar 28, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> Carrol: ""McCarthyism" is a serious misnomer, and it distorts ..."
> 
> [WS:]  You quibble over semantics.  It does not matter whether it is
> called "McCarthyism or "the Truman era."   What matters is that it is
> the modus operandi of the American version of capitalism, which can be
> called "fair weather democracy.”

Woj,

seems to me that what matters (among other things) is to change what is known (or not known) about the MO of the American version of capitalism. To set naming right, and to expose the real role played by the Dems (whether consciously or ignorantly), seems to be a good way to go about that, no?

	—ravi

P.S: this takes me back to the earlier unrelated thread on computability. For mathematicians/logicians, semantics is anything but a quibbling matter (Tarski, “meaning is use”, etc)! :-)