Re: Hutton's declaration of war 2

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 20/05/02 18:01 -0700, Jim Devine quoted Louis Proyect

> On Mon, 20 May 2002 22:32:27 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
> >If once the United States personified the
> >future, increasingly the EU is demonstrating how
> > inter-dependence can be managed and nurtured.
>
> LP: This must be some kind of joke. Anti-immigrant violence is spreading
> across Europe while the "third way" politicians are doing everything
> they can to placate xenophobia. ...
>
> JD: Chris' comment really does seem to be a joke.


But of course Chris did not write the words attributed to him, as the
thread title and his preamble showed.

The failure to show respect to the opposing argument and actually deal with
it, but to dismiss the individual with disrepect, is symptomatic of this
approach to marxism.

It is destructive of dialogue even in a list as orderly as this one.

Chris Burford