Re: Re: Purer Than Thou
Ravi, you start with a bogus opposition between purists and netroots,
the former largely adherents of the Church of Marx. Max would not
score high on any tests of Marxist purity; he’s always struck me as a
serious yet pragmatic guy who works in DC, fer Chrissake. And
netroots - what are they (and you name Kos and MyDD, both of which
prominently feature love letters to Nancy Pelosi) but a new
constituency for fairly conventional Dem politics, with little in the
way of politics or analysis (unless you consider this from MyDD an
analysis: “I find the horserace among Clinton, Edwards and Obama so
scrambled right now that I couldn’t possibly rank their relative
chances to win the nomination with any comfort at all”)? I can
already hear the vacuum cleaners revving up.
Doug
On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:19 PM, ravi wrote:
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My own polemic on the Max v NetRoots can be read at:
http://platosbeard.org/archives/262
Nothing particularly intelligent. Instead the following under the heading “Will the Real Internet Left please stand up?”:
Incremental steps are preferable to revolutions that return us to where we were (in the words of G.K.Chesterton)
That these steps are not progress remains to be shown
To not understand the limits of such steps is wilful blindness
The real Internet Left is, to repeat, Richard Stallman
–ravi
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