Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-02-01 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Hoover wrote: > > Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are > > another story entirely, except maybe for the Mpls general strike. I > > can't imagine their net contribution to human betterment to have been > > positive, but I'm willing to hear arguments to the

Re: Re: Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-02-01 Thread Michael Hoover
> Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are > another story entirely, except maybe for the Mpls general strike. I > can't imagine their net contribution to human betterment to have been > positive, but I'm willing to hear arguments to the contrary. > Doug I've a hunch

Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-02-01 Thread Michael Keaney
K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 1/2/00 2:05 am, Louis Proyect at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are >> another story entirely, except maybe for the Mpls general strike. I >> can't imagin

Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Michael Perelman
Thank you, Doug. This sort of good humored response is the best way to extinguish flames. Doug Henwood wrote: > Louis Proyect wrote: > > >Try to find some room in your busy reading schedule for > >some history, Doug. It will improve your mind. > > Thanks for the advice. My mind needs all the he

Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Louis Proyect
That's the Doug I used to love. At 09:19 PM 1/31/00 -0500, you wrote: >Louis Proyect wrote: > >>Try to find some room in your busy reading schedule for >>some history, Doug. It will improve your mind. > >Thanks for the advice. My mind needs all the help it can get. > >Doug > Louis Proyect Marxi

Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Michael Perelman
Louis, please. I thought that we were going to put an end to the provocations. Louis Proyect wrote: > Try to find some room in your busy reading schedule for > some history, Doug. It will improve your mind. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 T

Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >Try to find some room in your busy reading schedule for >some history, Doug. It will improve your mind. Thanks for the advice. My mind needs all the help it can get. Doug

commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Louis Proyect
>Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are >another story entirely, except maybe for the Mpls general strike. I >can't imagine their net contribution to human betterment to have been >positive, but I'm willing to hear arguments to the contrary. > >Doug Without the "Tro

Re: Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: >Doug answers: > >I am not now, nor I have I ever been, a Trotskyite. Or a Trotskyist, > >either. Just ask a real (ex-)Trot. > >Doug, you make it sound like a bad thing! Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are another story entirely, except maybe f

Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Jim Devine
At 05:54 PM 1/31/00 -0500, you wrote: >Jim Devine wrote: > >>from SLATE magazine: >Inevitably, reporters run out real questions and >>start asking [US Senator & GOP presidential candidate John] McCain why he >>likes talking to them so much. "It's fun. It's intellectually stimulating, >>" he says.

Re: commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: >from SLATE magazine: >Inevitably, reporters run out real questions and >start asking [US Senator & GOP presidential candidate John] McCain why he >likes talking to them so much. "It's fun. It's intellectually stimulating, >" he says. "Some of the last of the Trotskyites have be

commies in New Hampshire

2000-01-31 Thread Jim Devine
from SLATE magazine: >Inevitably, reporters run out real questions and start asking [US Senator & GOP presidential candidate John] McCain why he likes talking to them so much. "It's fun. It's intellectually stimulating, " he says. "Some of the last of the Trotskyites have been on this bus. It's ha