Re: Dallas Smythe student

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Walker wrote:
>
> Hey! What is this Yoshie? Theory of inevitable progress? Let me assure
> Yoshie and Daniel that I am not a woozy pre-capitalist romantic.

This thread had (mostly) developed in terms of characterizations of
either the participants in the thread or of "leftists-in-general." (Tom
mostly avoided this trap, since his posts mostly focused on or attempted
to define the issues involved independently of who believed what, but
Doug's whole concern seemed to be not the issues but a moral
characterization of those who disagreed with him. My own 'contribution'
to the thread was also on character rather than substance -- I
apologize.) If we let Yoshie's post and Tom's response control the
discussion, we might say something useful.

Carrol

P.S. An empirical point. I believe a poll of "leftists" today whould
reveal that Doug's position is that of the overwhelming majority. "I
believe" -- I don't know, and neither does anyone else on this list.