Hi, Gar,
Yours is an interesting message, but I didn't know what 'predation'
means and still don't after going to a dictionary and thinking about
this context. Still, I can understand your plain English rendition,
i.e., not to expect perfection from leadership.
The person whom you cite (the one choosing to use vulgar language)
clipped out most of my message and refocused it on Varoufakis whom I had
not mentioned personally. The basic substance of my query was whether
Syriza had not made so many concessions so far that it could eventually
agree to a package that would, in fact, not achieve anti-austerity.
Indeed, after the vote, Syriza is immediately going back into negotiations.
By the bye, I think I am as entitled to my query or opinion as is the
next person, without expecting vulgarity in a response.
Coming back to "predation", would criticizing the KPD leadership's
policies toward Hilter be also "predation"? Trotsky engaged in
"predation", as an example?
Paul Zarembka
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 16:35:41 -0700 From: Gar Lipow
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Syriza's leadership On Sat,
Jul 4, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > >
Are you fucking kidding? Do you really think that Varoufakis didn't
know > this years ago? >
Nobody is above criticism. But it does not hurt to remember the principle
stated well in an excellent article on the Greek crisis: "Blaming victims
for having insufficiently perfect leaders is standard fare for apologists
of predation." You can read the whole thing here: (http://t.co/LTpkw6oEm7 )
. Probably has nothing that people who have been paying careful attention
do not know. But for anyone who needs ot catch up, I don't think you could
do better than (http://t.co/LTpkw6oEm7 ) , This Forbes article is shorter
and not bad.http://onforb.es/1C8D87wm . The Forbes is good not only
for comparative brevity but for citing a respectedr business source. (Some
of the business press has been surprisingly good on this, as I've long
found they often are.) But the first link is much better.
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