Re: Dysentery

2003-10-01 Thread Devine, James
strangely enough, I used to subscribe to DISSENT, in the early 1970s. (My wayward youth!) I needed a clearer theoretical understanding of what was going on and the folks I was hanging around with recommended it. It didn't do. Not only did the late Irving Howe (DISSENT's guru) go on and on

Re: Dysentery

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Pollak
While we're telling funny Dissentary stories: I got a free copy of this issue in the mail. I didn't know why, and put it aside to check out some day and see if it was any better than I remembered it. And then I got another. Now I was curious: was this some new subscription drive that was giving

Dysentery

2003-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect
are willing, in dire circumstances, to engage in horrendous actions, including torture. http://www.dissentmagazine.org/ === Woody Allen, Annie Hall: ALVY (Taking Robin's hand) I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for Dysentery. ROBIN Commentary. ALVY Oh, really

Re: Dysentery

2003-09-30 Thread andie nachgeborenen
://www.dissentmagazine.org/ === Woody Allen, Annie Hall: ALVY (Taking Robin's hand) I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for Dysentery. ROBIN Commentary. ALVY Oh, really, I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysentery

Re: Dysentery

2003-09-30 Thread joanna bujes
evenings making fake insights with people who work for Dysentery. ROBIN Commentary. ALVY Oh, really, I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysentery. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: Dysentery

2003-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect
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

Re: Dysentery

2003-09-30 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Ahem. Real liberals (in America) are card-carrying members of the ACLU like me who stand foresquare for the Rights of Man, the Bill of Rights, due process, equal protection, and against torture -- come what may. Levinson, who has made a name for himself as a 2d Amendment (gun rights) scholar, is

Re: Dysentery

2003-09-30 Thread joanna bujes
Anything to save those SUV's. 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

Re: Dysentery

2003-09-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I'm all for torturing Alan Dershowitz. mbs 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