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Dogan Gocmen <dgn.g...@googlemail.com> defends the CPUSA's course with: "Politics are not just about strategy and formulation of 'clean' positions. . . . . [D]aily politics are something entirely different than strategic thinking." This "method" is entirely consistent. Determined not to be distracted by those petty everyday considerations--like the actual subject under discussion--the argument levitates (dialectically, of course) into generalizations that mean absolutely nothing to any materialist without those very considerations Dogan scorns. But still, the conclusion repeatedly reasserted, ignoring the entire of the previous discussion: "The only criterion you can lie down is whether the issue at stake improves the situation of people or not." For Dogan, this criterion is a settled question and requires no consideration of those petty everyday grubby little materialist considerations. Who needs that, when you have the word from Uncle Joe (Lieberman, not Stalin). Just so long as you fend off the ultraleft near-anarchist neo-Trotskyite utopians like Kucinich and Huffington... ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
