Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Hardt:"Spinoza was a communist thinker long before Marx"

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

> I had read the discussion, and had not particularly been entering it
> _because_ your posts had increasingly seemed to me to be foreclosing
> discussion by announcing in advance (in what I referred to as your
> metatheoretical pronouncements) that the only basis for disagreement
> would be Commissr-like dogmatism. You were a free spirit, and
opposition
> to a free-spirit such as you was precluded in advance. Hence
responses
> seemed pointless, the wells of discourse having been poisoned.
>
> Yoshie had tried to respond with arguments, which you continually
> dismissed as irrelevant because dogmatic. In other words, the name
of
> the sender guaranteed the irrelevancy of the arguments.
>
> That is, you had already closed off argument. Yoshie simply labelled
> what was already de facto the case.
>
> In the past, you seemed always or usually to respond to content, not
> messenger. Hence my puzzlement and my hope that I was
misunderstanding
> you. Apparently I was not.
>
> Carrol
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Oh, please. Point to where I ever asserted in the thread that Yoshie
was a dogmatist or that I precluded agreement or dismissed her
argument. This is part and parcel of the problems with email; what
some see as discussion others see as argument. Any suggestions as to
how to obviate that particular problem are most welcome.

Ian