Right. I was very upset that Hedges said this untruth. Does he really believe it? It ruined his argument. And yet, the idea of reinjecting US discourse (and practice) with "good communists" is a noble one. The left bends over backwards in finding proper non-offensive terms. Committees of Correspondence, for example, doesn't have the rhythmic ring, even though they do good work http://www.cc-ds.org/
Brian -----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <[email protected]> To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 12:46 pm Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Hedges: US Needs Good Communists n Jun 2, 2010, at 12:41 PM, [email protected] quoted Chris Hedges: > It does not mean we have to agree with Karl Marx, who advocated violence and whose worship of the state as a utopian mechanism led to another form of enslavement of the working class Learn something new every day. ______________________________________________ en-l mailing list [email protected] ttps://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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