On Sat, 18 May 2002 12:55:57 -0700 Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I thought that this essay was excellent. It made a simple point in a way that people
>could understand without attacking their own motives and
behavior. I wish that more of us had the rhetorical skill exhibited here.
I appreciate Eagleton's felicity with language and ability to turn a phrase. But don't
you think that the point is misplaced? I mean, Eagleton conflates historical socialism
with the socialism in his head, and then concludes that actually existing socialism
somehow would or could have kept a lid on the forces that brought us 9-11. (And that,
despite his admission that AES was basically an extravagant barbarity.) Hence, the
anti-globalization movement is the world's best defense against OBL etc. I find that
hard to believe, whatever the anti-globalization movement's strengths.
Christian
