Perhaps Bill Cochrane was just being sarcastic, but I don't recall seeing
anyone nominate Marilyn Waring for sainthood or minor deity status. In my
view, being a tory is no disqualification for having something sensible to
say. Nor is being "no friend of unions or . . . other traditional left
progressive organizations (OTLPOs)" an unforgivable sin.
Unions and OTLPOs have often been hostile to environmental issues, 'women's'
issues, and racial equality issues. Unions have often been hostile to the
'left'. For that matter, TLPOs are often hostile to OTLPOs.
Unions and OTLPOs have traditionally gone along with a capitalist GDP growth
model, disputing only the ultimate division of the spoils. Sometimes it
takes a tory to say something sensible that 'even' the left refuses to
acknowledge.
In the 1970s North American left there was a lot of anxiety about
'ideological purity'. Sectlet competed with sectlet for mastery of a
'correct analysis.' Of course, some of the big wigs of some of the most
rigourously pure sectlets went on to academic careers and had 'second
thoughts' about their youthful radicalism, joining the already considerable
ranks of ex-marxist neo-cons. This alone should serve as sufficient warning
against the tenuousness of using ancestoral *ad hominem* as a criteria for
dismissing or embracing ideas.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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