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- From: jhurley@husc3.harvard.edu
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- Subject: Re: alt.pol.r-l; another argument
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.224350.19837@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:43:50 EST
- References: <1993Jan25.182059.21222@mont.cs.missouri.edu> <1k21rjINNiuc@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
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- In article <1k21rjINNiuc@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu
- responds to a post of mine where I advocated the proposed alt.pol.radical-
- left:
- >
- > Is there some reason that [left-wing] theoretical discussions could not
- >be handled by talk.politics. theory?
- > --
- I have never read t.p.t., but I would point out that leftists are
- far outside the mainstream of discourse on political theory in the U.S.,
- (though probably less so among the intellectual types who read the net)
- and that a forum for specifically radical-left political theory would
- likely elicit more participation than we could expect from leftists in
- a broader political discussion group.
-
- Also, by "theoretical discussion," I meant "programme-formulation" as
- well as political philosophy. Most non-leftists have little to contribute to,
- and no interest in, leftist programme formulation, and hence it would be of
- little benefit to anyone to subsume this realm of discussion under
- general political theory.
- > Richard H. Miller Email: rick@bcm.tmc.edu
- > Asst.
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