[lbo-talk] Mr. Slick

[Carrol Cox]

Eric Beck:
> Anybody else find Greenwald more than a little unctuous? I almost always
> agree with the political points he is making, but he's ridiculously
> rational. He seems genuinely shocked that a statecrafter--or anyone
> really--would say one thing and do another, and his insistence on
adherence
> to norms and juridical processes cedes way too much at the outset. Detach
a
> little, man.

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I had not thought of it in this way, but perhaps Eric here explains why so
often I've started to fwd a Greenwald column to a local list, then changed
my mind. Greenwald believes facts and rhetoric change minds, & that is such
a tempting or kneejerk premise that one thinks, surely this will sway those
liberals who left the anti-war movement as soon as Obama was elected. THIS
will activate the passive ones.

But of course it won't. It's propaganda in the positive (Kautsky, Lenin)
sense: it deepens the understanding of those who already agree with it, but
will not serve as agitation.

Carrol

P.S. Word spell check does not recognize Kautsky.