Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/18/2011 8:57 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Michael F. asks:
> Cornell West, a moral philosopher?  A moral Marxist exists out there?
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> Yes. Can exist. Just as a moral Republican can.
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> Schwartzenegger could have been one, but it doesn't seem he was,  too much.

I don't know if the author of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, was a 
moral philosopher but he did teach moral philosophy.

Was Ayn Rand a moral philosopher?

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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael F<mff8785 at gmail.com>
> To: Joseph Tracy<brook7 at sover.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Tue, May 17, 2011 10:02:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden
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> Cornell West, a moral philosopher?  A moral Marxist exists out there?
> I heard the man speak when I was in college 10 years ago at the state
> university that I attended and I was lured in, enamored and angry!,
> hell, I went out and read everything available at the local Barnes and
> Nobles(Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and the Cornell West Reader).
> It was funny, everyone he referenced were recently-distanced from the
> academy, and by today's standards, antiquated Marxists from Europe:
> ideologues, which appear and disappear within 40 or 50 years.  Chomsky
> and West are of similar sophistic natures.  They are celebrities, not
> philosophers.  Amazing how they turn their back on Obama.  They are
> typical of the "revolutionaries" that particular(not all) institutions
> and departments are creating.  I actually prefer Ward Churchill to the
> turn-coats!  Ward could put on a show and his histrionics are much
> more entertaining and humorous than West's preaching/ hip-hop act and
> Noam's solemn delivery.
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> Mike
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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Joseph Tracy<brook7 at sover.net>  wrote:
>> Here is a more comprehensive critique of Obama and the Democrats by Cornel
>> West, who knows Obama well.
>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/16-1#comment-1831028
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>> On May 17, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Henry M wrote:
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>> Few people in the world will ever read Chomsky's comments (only a very small
>> percentage of the country read well enough to understand his academic
>> prose).  Some number more than those few will listen to Amy Goodman's
>> similarly provacative but impracticle shows.  Nader and Moore at least get
>> their divisive messages out to the people.
>>
>> I think the best couse for the forseeable future is for people to hear and
>> read the stalking-horse American left, but to come back to supporting the
>> Dems as the only practical bulwark agains a very long, dark theocratic
>> totalitarian era.
>>
>> AsB4,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Mu
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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