Carrol wrote: "There's a dream-like quality to heavy debates on matters on which the debaters cannot have any impact."
Walter Mitty comes to mind... On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Marv Gandall: " For example, social safety nets need to be strengthened > before subsidies on items such as food and fuel are removed . . . ." > > What a lovely dream, Marv. > > Also, what significance, if any, does the opinion of u.s. leftists on the > Ukraine have? It seems to me that arguing the point is merely a flight from > the desperate straits of the u.s. working class -- and the inability of > radicals to move even fractions of that class to action. There's a > dream-like quality to heavy debates on matters on which the debaters cannot > have any impact. It's like debating whether the Athenians used the right > policies in their reactions to Alexander's Macedonia. > > Carrol > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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