Robinson, along with Meek, did to Marx what Samuelson did to Keynes --
show how his work could be interpreted in terms of respectable economics
by removing much that is valuable. I doubt that either felt that they
were violating the work that they were interpreting.
I spent an afternoon with Rob
Carl Remick wrote:
>> Attacking people you haven't read and/or barely understand isn't my
>> idea of what intellectuals are supposed to do ...
>
> Unless, that is, what is not understood is not understandable.
>
by which token sokal is as much a fool as those he ridicules, for
i am sure i will
>Attacking people you haven't read and/or barely understand isn't my
>idea of what intellectuals are supposed to do ...
>
>Doug
Unless, that is, what is not understood is not understandable. The
following is from volume three of Robert Skidelsky's bio of John Maynard
Keynes: "Keynes's 'blind
Speaking of the glorious days of Clinton, I was just reminded yesterday
that Ira Magaziner was behind the ICANN mess as well as Hilary's health
care fiasco.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:26794] Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: tompaine.com
Doug, I wasn't defending Sokal. Instead, I was arguing against indiscriminate use of political labels, as if we should assume that someone is wrong on all counts just because they're a "social democrat."
It'
Devine, James wrote:
>Similarly, I heard on pen-l that Alan Sokal was a "social democrat."
>Who cares? Does his status as a social democrat imply that he's
>worse than some creep who runs a small sect of five people which
>claims to have the "correct line (or program)"? should we shun Sokal
>
>Yup. I talked with someone who recently
>interviewed for a job at DLC, and it was made
>clear that they *hate* Kuttner, and would love
>to see TAP vaporize. Which, if the rumors are
>correct, may be about to happen.
>
>Doug
Kuttner's opposition to Clinton--the quintessential DLC'er--could
ce
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> > -Original Message-
> > From: Max Sawicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 1:10 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [PEN-L:26774] RE: RE: RE: tompaine.com
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:26774] RE: RE: RE: tompaine.com
Like Max, I really don't care how "left" someone is. It's not like there's a way of measuring such things along some hard-and-fast and objective spectrum. Besides, what's "left" changes over time. Ba
Kuttner, tompaine.com, and Moyers are political
comrades. How much more 'left' one is than the
other is a trivial question. How left they all are
compared to your ideal, or to what you think
is defensible, is more to the point.
By the way, Paul Starr, TAP co-editor, is notably less liberal
than
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