Unless I missed an earlier post on this thread (which is possible), this is the only one I can find, and I would like you to help me identify the substance in the below, which is the entirety of Marv Gandall’s post (minus quoted bits):
> I don't at all, at all, "hate" Carrol. I've heard that he's more much more restrained and gracious than his ferocious online persona would suggest. No surprise there; many flamers are. Some of his commentaries are sober, well-informed and thought-provoking, and I have no doubt, as indicated below, that he is well-intentioned.
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> But he's also ridiculously self-deluding, as many armchair radicals are, and it's his revolutionary pretensions which underlie his Puritanical pursuit of the many "soft-on-the-DP reformists" he perceives in his milieu. Like others with similar pretensions, but with very little practical political experience outside of small circle organizing in university towns and among the better-educated, he'd be quickly chewed up and spit out in a working class political party, union, or social movement of any consequence, where mastering the "art of defensive formulations" is essential to political survival. I mostly restrain myself from commenting on his frequent outrageously iconoclastic observations, but his light-hearted "enjoyment, win or lose" from afar of the desperate struggles of European and American workers was particularly offensive - even if it was, as I am sure, calculated to display to himself and others his unsentimental and unflinching "revolutionary" steadfastness.
Sorry, another search yielded this post:
> And easier still when you're not even among the 9%, but a comfortably retired professor of English literature vicariously "enjoying the battle" from behind a keyboard in a small town far removed from the loci of the crisis. The limitless self-delusion of the well-intentioned...
Weeding through the archives online right now, as I await your response.
—ravi
P.S: Sparrow Mail? That’s pretty chic! :-)