From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox) Subject: Re: M-I: Re: Get back in the kitchen and rattle them pots & pans! Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:23:28 -0500 (CDT) Apparently I posted to m-i re some exchange between rodwell and Jim. I don't remember what, why, or when, but I must have been feeling slightly dizzy if I read anything by or responded to anything from Rodwell, whom I have not read for a year or so. Carrol > > James Blaut: > > >Hugh: > > > >Your problemr is that you can't tell when you're being kidded. A sturdy > >sense of humor is a vital quality in a revolutionary, particularly in these > >times. > > This is disingenuous; in debate, the kind of heavy, elaborate 'kidding' > James B. resorts to in his post is often used in deliberate bad faith as an > offensive weapon (Louis P. is a consummate practitioner of this art). There > is always the chance that a number of people will fail to see the 'joke' and > take the content at face value -- as happened in this case (viz. Carrol C.'s > predictable reaction). The kidder has then succeeded in damaging his > adversary's reputation at no cost to himself. If the victim chooses to > interpret his antagonist's remarks as harmless badinage, his silence will -- > with any luck -- be taken by said people as a tacit admission of the charge. > If on the other hand he retaliates, he can always be chastised for lacking > in the qualities that make a true revolutionary in these discouraging times. > > Who said there was no such thing as a free lunch? > > >But the kidding had a serious point to it [...]. > > No, really? > > >Another serious point [...]. > > Say no more. > > > Stuart Sheild > > > > --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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