[lbo-talk] Why Egypt's Liberal Intellectuals Still Support the Army

socialismorbarbarism socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 09:05:22 PST 2014


Douglas La Rocca: "Angelus Novus (Ellen) is correct in her "concern-trolling" estimation..."

Yes! Agreement all around! Although:

"....(despite the total misuse of the term one gets what she's after)..."

But then, in classic concern-troll mode:

"This is simply an honest evaluation of the present, not a malicious judgment but a regretful admission that something has gone wrong."

Nah, AN gets the term right.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Douglas La Rocca <douglarocca at gmail.com>wrote:


> Angelus Novus (Ellen) is correct in her "concern-trolling" estimation
> (despite the total misuse of the term one gets what she's after). I however
> make no apologies for pointing out the faults of the "Left". This is
> because there is no Left, i.e. what passes as Leftism is as the Spartacists
> correctly point out "fake-"/"pseudo-" Leftism.
>
> This is simply an honest evaluation of the present, not a malicious
> judgment but a regretful admission that something has gone wrong.
>
> -dl
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Bill Bartlett wrote:
> >
> > On 12/01/2014, at 3:26 PM, "Carrol Cox" wrote: Up to this point your
> post
> > was interesting. [clip]
> >
> > How so? And if so, you may care to comment on the interesting aspects.
> >
> > -------
> >
> > It _seemed_ (minus the swagger) to be a warning against crudely applying
> > the
> > standards of a middle-school civics book to the conditions of nations
> > under
> > the heel of global capital.
> >
> > Carrol
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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