Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Harry Magdoff on marketsocialism

[Doug Henwood]

Carrol Cox wrote:

>I think you should
>seriously consider that there may in fact be good reasons for leftists
>to be a bit more concerned about "heretics" than are rightists (if that
>is indeed the case).

I'm not talking about the need to ferret out spies and agents 
provocateurs. I'm talking about an intellectual impulse to scrutinize 
every statement for unorthodox sentiments or missing pledges of 
fealty. It's happened here about 10 times in the last week. Jim 
Devine tells me he's tired of my learning experiences. Fine. I'm 
going to step under a cone of silence on PEN-L for a while. If it 
weren't for all my sunk costs, I'd be tempted to give up on the left, 
whatever that is, entirely. Since I don't like that feeling, maybe 
the best thing to do is to avert my eyes for a few days.

Doug