I would disagree. It seems to me that maillists are primarily
conversational, and attempts to make them replace printed journals are
mostly wishful thinking. I my only rarely either read or write posts
much longer than 4 or 5 screens. Moreover, issues that really do depend
on large amounts of empi
>From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>the best any thread on pen-l (and lbo-talk?) seems to be able to do is to
>clarify differences.
Yes, clearly there's little difference between pen-l and lbo on that score
:)
Carl
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:28996] Re: Re: Re: Re: : liberalism
Louis writes:
> I know this is an onerous burden to place on pen-l'ers, but
> you should search for ways to impart some kind of concrete information
> whenever you post.
That's good, but I like a weaker stan
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28995] Re: Re: Re: : liberalism
the best any thread on pen-l (and lbo-talk?) seems to be able to do is to clarify differences.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -Original Message-
> From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael writes:
> I would only add that in
>these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
>least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
>debates will write.
To be sure, most postings in most PEN-L debates appear as predictable
rehearsals of existi
Lou expressed my thought better than I did. I would only add that in
these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
debates will write.
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:25:32AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
> In
>Michael Perelman wrote:
>
>>Is this discussion or the elitism thread going anywhere?
>
>Not really, but does any thread ever go anywhere?
>
>Doug
I know this is an onerous burden to place on pen-l'ers, but you should
search for ways to impart some kind of concrete information whenever you
pos
>
> >As I said, almost everyone. jks
>
>Almost everyone is right; as far as I can tell, yer man Posner is not in
>favour of representative government or of "extensive civil rights and
>liberties" in as much as these can't be derived from property rights.
That's unfair to Posner. His notion of
