From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-TH: WSJ: Socialist International.
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 11:10:58 -0600 (CST)


Doug writes:
> 
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> >It is
> >almost inconceivable that Bartley, Boot, Henninger, Jenkins, et al
> >actually believe what they are writing.
> 
> Oh, I think they really do. I used to be a right-wing nut in college, back

O.K. It takes a stretch, but I'll believe they believe. But while we're
on the subject, do they *also* really believe in Yellow Rain, the
Bulgarian Connection, and the benevolence of Pinochet?

I too remember believing in an awful lot of silly things, but it seems 
as if there ought to be *some* limit to the absurdities the ruling class
can believe in.

Sartre in his essay "On Genocide" (in Vietnam) speculates on the extent of
the moralistic self-delusion of U.S. rulers.

Carrol



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