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Re: [OPE-L] an ad hominem response

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Hi Jerry,
        No, I definitely meant 'ad hominem' in the sense of
persuasion (and not rhetoric in the sense of contemporary lists on
marxism). That said, on one list which I follow--despite the vast
amount of noise, there are real gems which I cherry-pick from the archive.
        Back to my not-so-whimsical question--- do we need more
abstract theory or more attempts at persuading and developing a new
common sense these days?
        in solidarity,
        michael

At 11:21 16/04/2006, you wrote: 
> ps. do we need more logic or more ad hominem arguments these days?

Mike L,

Revolutionary change is not brought about by logic alone.

But, if it's ad hominem arguments that you want (in the _contemporary_
meaning of the expression) then you have no further need to look beyond
other Internet lists devoted to the discussion of 'marxism'.  (We don't
need to mention names here, do we?) It is unclear to me, though, why
_anyone_ would be attracted to marxism after viewing those discussions.
Indeed, I suspect that quite the reverse occurs.

In solidarity, Jerry 

Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6

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