[lbo-talk] Iraq war (was: stupidity is most dangerous in people with high IQ)

[Wojtek S]

Shag: "I still don't get how Carrol's claims about the democratic party is
where the potential for radicalism goes to die is an idealist position as
you state."

[WS:] Because this kind of analysis uses generalized abstractions like
"democrat party" or "activists" instead of concrete empirical cases of
specific groups working with specific politicians on specific issues and
achieving (or not achieving) specific results, and then reifies these
abstractions by stipulating that the alleged properties of these
abstractions must apply to all empirical cases.  It is pretty idealistic,
no?  And this comes from someone who have insisted, time and again, that
there is no such thing as the left.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."