I wrote: The reason why there's "an odd aversion to the condemnation of
to the condemnation of Haider and the Austrian's for letting this
semi-fascist into government" is because you _read it into_ what I was
saying (rather than actually reading what I was saying). I am totally
opposed to
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However, you have to consider the source (and more generally put the
condemnation into context). Can one trust condemnation of Haider
that comes from someone like Tony Blair, who actively supported the
resistible rise of the KLA/UCK in Kosovo (while imposing
All this talk of evil strikes me as belonging in a religious discourse
rather than in that of a social scientist, whatever the discipline.
Edwin (Tom) Dickens
Nathan Newman wrote:
Maybe it's because I am trained as a sociologist rather than an economist, I don't
reduce compensation to a
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All this talk of evil strikes me as belonging in a religious discourse
rather than in that of a social scientist, whatever the discipline.
I said "trained." I am not a scientist-- and social science is an oxymoron
as far as I am concerned - but an activist.
And
Nathan:
The whole preference smacks to me of the whole "social fascism" line that
helped get Hitler into power in the first place, and your echoing it in your
"fascism from the air" comment just bears it out.
I think that you are imagining the anti-Haider Austrians to be incapable of
resisting,
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Even if we all pitched in it wouldn't make any
difference to the Dems, and it would have no effect except to
wipe out much of whatever support exists for movement based as opposed to
partisan
politics. Anyway, I have long since ceased to argue with him about
Anyway, its' time to stop the 1930s analogies. Haider is not Hitler, Austria
is not Germany, and we don't have the Comintern to kick around any more.
Let's get serious. Nathan isn't going to fess up--when the Democarts nominate
Pat Buchanan and David Duke, he will be talking about how they are
The Haider thread is degenerating quickly. Please stop.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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I wrote: However, you have to consider the source (and more generally
put the condemnation into context). Can one trust condemnation of Haider
that comes from someone like Tony Blair, who actively supported the
resistible rise of the KLA/UCK in Kosovo (while imposing
fascism-from-the-air,
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I want to add another point about the media. There seems to be an
undercurrent -- a subtext?? -- in the news about how ethnic chauvinism by
ethnic Germans is somehow scarier or worse than ethnic chauvinism by
non-Germans (Israeli Jews, US whites, etc., etc.) I think
I wrote:
I want to add another point about the media. There seems to be an
undercurrent -- a subtext?? -- in the news about how ethnic chauvinism by
ethnic Germans is somehow scarier or worse than ethnic chauvinism by
non-Germans (Israeli Jews, US whites, etc., etc.) I think that this is
On Behalf Of Jim Devine
Nathan wrote:
Wait a second. I am not sure why there is this odd aversion to the
condemnation of Haider and the Austrian's for letting this
semi-fascist into
government.
The reason why there's "an odd aversion to the condemnation of to the
condemnation of Haider
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