Re: Re: Re: Aux armes citoyens! (was A slight advantage of poverty)

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, of course, because it does not come from a demonized as
> Fascistic semicolonial people that had the guts to confront the
> American imperialists for decades, but from another imperialist
> country. If it is French, thus "civilized", it makes Brad feel
> creepy. If it is Argentinian, that is "barbarious" it makes feel
> disgusted.

Intellectual foul.

What makes the Marseillaise "creepy" rather than "barbarous" is that
it spends more lines making it very clear what the stakes
are--liberty vs. tyranny--than it does calling for blood.

It has nothing to do with the fact that Argentina is a
"non-imperialist country."


Brad DeLong