Re: Re: Re: Current implications for South Africa

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> Yoshie:
> >Let's forget about fast food as it is merely red herring in this
> >thread.
>
> Then why the heck did you and Carrol tell practically argue that opposition
> to MacDonalds is anti-working class? Surely you are aware that I read
> lbo-talk just as Doug reads the Marxism list archives. I found your
> performance around this question deeply troubling.

Lou, if I could do it with a wave of my hand, I would wipe MacDonalds
off the face of the earth. The institution of fast food is undoubtedly
vicious. But attacking _people_ rather than the institutions that
exploit them is just politically stupid. I don't really remember very
well the specific thread -- but I have very consistently on LBO attacked
generic attacks on people.

Your misunderstanding here is characteristic, I think, of the way in
which a focus on truth in the abstract can divorce people from political
reality. It leads to Plato's solution: Philosopher Kings.

Carrol