[lbo-talk] Some "smart alec" replies (to "not theory" and The '60s)

Tahir Wood twood at uwc.ac.za
Fri Jan 27 00:24:55 PST 2012


From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] not theory
> The Leninist baggage of What is to be Done? I don't know about anyone else, but I have always found quite funny the image of Lenin running into the library to get a copy of Hegel's Logic to read after hearing of Kautsky's betrayal. Lenin seems to have had a really mechanistic and naive view of the relationship between theory and practice.

Which is why he didn't amount to a hill of beans?

T: Wow, what a stunning illustration of the Sorites paradox. Anyway I just find the idea of "consulting" a theory before you decide what to do next rather ridiculous.

From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> Subject: [lbo-talk] The '60s

I say this partl to explain the sheer assertiveness, without supporting argument or qualification.

T: It comes as a relief to know that it wasn't anything to do with your personality.

Anyone who wants to engage in the c oming struggles triggered by Wisconsin & expanded by OWS will have read Ted Morgan's book or he/she is not serious in his/her claimed political intentions.

Any one who refers to 'the '60s' even in casual dinner-table chat without having read Ted Morgan's book is proliferating nonsense (often in its most vicious form of half-truths).

T: I could have sworn I remembered being around in the '60s and having memories of it. Turns out I was full of "nonsense", by definition. The things you learn on this list...

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