[lbo-talk] "tool" as insult?

andie_nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 13 08:37:32 PDT 2012


The issue isn't the sincerity of these beliefs but their accuracy and defensibility.

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On Sep 13, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Andie: "Self delusion about being an Instrument of History, God,
> Nation, Party, or Volk strikes me as a way for the self-righteous to
> avoid responsibility and commit crimes with a clear conscience despite
> dirty hands."
>
> [WS:] No doubt. But there are also those who either genuinely
> renounce the self in favor of some greater good - which is a moral
> attitude - or those who argue that the individual self is but a
> manifestation of collective consciousness - which is a theoretical
> position that I take seriously. The trick is to tell the difference
> between these three.
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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