Re: Broad left American pragmatism

[rahul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Mahajan)]

>Carrol's list of irrational people on the list:
(snip)

>Only 2 of 11 are Americans living in the US.
>
>
>Underlying all this seems to be a pragmatic assumption that all the
>principles have already been thrashed out and are there in a consensus, and
>all that needs to be done is to get stuck in and carry out these ready-made
>policies on a ready-made revolutionary agenda.
>
>If only this was the case!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Hugh

How natural for you to come up with the exact opposite of the correct
interpretation, Hugh. It seems quite clear that the assumption underlying
most of Carrol's list is that there are real issues to be thrashed out, so
everyone who is interested in purveying a dogmatic, simple-minded,
schematic absolute truth (at least according to his or her own delusions),
and, of course, one that is expressed over and over again in the same way,
is worthy of automatic deletion. Stop your "200-line tautologies" and I'm
sure Carrol would be quite ready to read you again.

Cheers,

Rahul




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