[lbo-talk] compare and contrast

[Carrol Cox]

Joanna here shows the damage a moralistic (i.e., individualist, personal)
perspective does to clear thought. This list, mostly to its advantage, has a
considerable variety of styles among its subscribers. It is also easy for
anyone to ignore or merely glance at the posts of any particular subscriber.
Joanna's question is, I think, offensive as well as being intellectually
vapid. Why should there not be, from the perspective of the list as a whole,
not include one poster who quotes (selectively, one should note) from the
works of Marx be a great advantage? Joanna, however, due I think to her
pervasively moralistic approach to the world, is it seems interested
primarily in making a personal judgment of Ted. I find that enormously
boring. From the viewpoint of the list as a whole, Ted's posts are obviously
of great value, whether they result from poor morals on his part or  not is
irrelevant.

Now this post suffers from the approach which it condemns: i.e. it focuses
too much on Joanna. Perhaps I should have tried to discover some other
framing topic for attacking personal moral judgment. But that is one of the
effects of moral judgment; it is hard to respond to without falling into the
fault attacked.

I disagree in many ways with Ted -- but I greatly appreciate his presence on
the list. I certainly do not find it depressing. I've learned from it over
the years and hope to continue to do so.

Carrol

-----Original Message-----
From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
On Behalf Of // ravi
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:11 PM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] compare and contrast

On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:14 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> I wonder what life form Marx would have assigned to those who are unable
to communicate except through quotations from Marx.
> 

Zing!

I know: Marxstricts? Proliteralists?


> It is both irritating and profoundly depressing.

Amen! At least other fundies have more amusing gods :-).

	-ravi (ducking.)

P.S: no insult to Ted  Winslow, or Shane. Really. I am talking about the
entire list! :-)

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