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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Harry Magdoff on market socialism

Carrol Cox wrote:

I think you should
seriously consider that there may in fact be good reasons for leftists
to be a bit more concerned about "heretics" than are rightists (if that
is indeed the case).


I'm not talking about the need to ferret out spies and agents
provocateurs. I'm talking about an intellectual impulse to scrutinize
every statement for unorthodox sentiments or missing pledges of
fealty. It's happened here about 10 times in the last week. Jim
Devine tells me he's tired of my learning experiences. Fine. I'm
going to step under a cone of silence on PEN-L for a while. If it
weren't for all my sunk costs, I'd be tempted to give up on the left,
whatever that is, entirely. Since I don't like that feeling, maybe
the best thing to do is to avert my eyes for a few days.

Doug


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