[lbo-talk] A PR disaster: Five views on Pussy Riot's war

[Eric Beck]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Every one is searching for some abstract principle that would decide this
> question: it doesn't exist.

Well it could exist, if we made it. And it actually does: the First Amendment.

But you're right that the search for an abstract principle is a
problem. And in the PR/Putin affair, every argument put forward by the
anti-PR/pro-Putin people has rested on some abstraction (about
imperialism, sexism, etc.).