On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Robin Hahnel wrote: > > For what its worth, the editorial board of Science and Society went through > this -- I must say tiresome -- debate over the sins of utopian thinking > before finally publishing their issue in 1992 on the Future of Socialism. > Poor David Laibman had to struggle with his editorial board for 6 months > to get them to agree to such an issue, and even then a dissenting minority > of the board published a letter in the issue in objection. I have seen > nothing in Louis or other anti-utopian postings on penl recently that > improves upon that expression of the errors of utopian thinking -- with > which I completely disagreed. > Louis: What is the strange compulsion of people like Robin Hahnel and Paul Phillips to cite obscure and hard-to-find articles from years ago to bolster their weak arguments? What is their aversion to keeping the discussion within the confines of PEN-L and not make people chase down dated, small-circulation journals. Nobody has a clue what was in the Science and Society issue. And this time I am not going over to the library to find out. I think Hahnel and Phillips have a problem with intellectual cowardice.
