Joanna
Louis Proyect wrote:
You've lost me Louis, are you arguing for the necessity of torture?
Joanna
No, Dissent Magazine is. Sanford Levinson basically wrote a defense of Alan Dershowitz there using formulations that were a bit less crude. If you watch Dershowitz's debate with Norman Finkelstein, you'll see a bit of casuistry around the acceptability of "soft torture" like keeping depriving people of sleep, etc. This is the sinkhole of social democracy and liberalism that some on the left are trying to accomodate themselves to. I am afraid that American fascism will not come in jackboots but in Birkenstocks.
Louis Proyect, Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
